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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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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Along with its original crisis mapping work, now called Ushahidi Tracker , Ushahidi has developed new mapping and data management tools. TechSoup has made some of Ushahidi's new data management tools available to nonprofits, including Ushahidi Surveyor and Ushahidi Responder. New Ushahidi Services for Nonprofits.

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 x 10 Ten NpTech Tagged Items About Social Media and Nonprofits That You Can Check Out in Ten Minutes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. Despite a DOS attack this week on SlideShare, a couple of nonprofit techies managed to upload slide shows. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

NTEN

The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog. Case Foundation highlights advocacy mashups , and we're glad to see NTEN members Peter Deitz , Care2 , GlobalGiving , and MAPLight.org received some well-deserved props.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! something like a consulting company or creative manager." Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. NpTech Conversations. re working with???something And if you???re

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

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Mashups make me want to sing! Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. So, when you sit down in that senior management meeting, you're comparing kittens to Pop Tarts across all your departments. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. How is it that not for profits are managing to use communications technologies to rock social change--when they've got pennies to spend? The sites attract millions.