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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. TechSoup partnered with agencies like USAID and tech companies like Microsoft and Yahoo to host these "tech for good" challenges annually via our NetSquared program.

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Great reads from around the web on February 3rd

Amy Sample Ward

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. Its seven other backers include Yahoo!, The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 That’s not a believable theory of change.

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Nonprofits, Companies, and White House Unite on Tech Gap

Tech Soup

Twitter's technical staff was only 10 percent women, and Facebook and Yahoo's was at 15 percent. I first learned about Year Up's local Bay Area chapter through a Microsoft YouthSpark initiative event. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : 80 percent of employees were Caucasian at the tech companies it examined.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. Film Contest - " Film Your Issue " from Yahoo and other sponsors. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. Hacker Helper is currently in beta. All Things D.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 You can create an RSS feed that would work 24/7 and bring any news to your desktop from Google News or Yahoo News. The power of Web2.0

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