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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Deadline Approaching for $10,000 Pizzigati Prize

Tech Soup

Previous winners have developed open-source applications and systems that are free, shareable, and benefit organizations that work to benefit others. Darius Jazayeri (2009), who created OpenMRS, an open source, free, and flexible medical records system that is easily customizable by health providers without the need for programmers.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. About NetSquared. To learn more about NetSquared or get involved, visit [link].

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What TechSoupers Are Doing to Ensure Their Online Security: Part 1

Tech Soup

Eli van Der Giessen , NetSquared community manager, reveals: "One feature I like is Sharing. " "I also use some free browser add-on applications on my laptop. I created my own system for doing it that makes it easy for me to remember what they are. What TechSoup LastPass Users Have to Say.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

I write for the NetSquared blog each day (it takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the topic), but it is also designed to be a community blog, so any registered user can post on it about how nonprofits are using the social web for social change. Depending on your organization's work and audience, you may not have to.

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Developers and Nonprofits Come Together to Make Apps for Change

Tech Soup

The reality is that not everybody has a device, such as a phone or laptop, which connects to Wi-Fi. SMC Connect is currently linked on the San Mateo County Library system's website and bookmarked on branch library public access computers. This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons. Bond & Me.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

I only have my laptop and my notebook with me, so all I need is an outlet and the wifi password to get to work. I spoken with various libraries who, when they learned about the NetSquared Local program asked why they couldn’t participate – and I told them that of course they could! Innovation Today.

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