Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Kevin Lo reports from San Francisco’s latest event, Open Source and Open Data in Action. Joyce Bettencourt has a roundup on the future of slide decks (includes video!). Don’t be afraid! August’s NetSquared Events. Tuesday, July 30.

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Netsquared Local San Francisco Philadelphia 55

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

This session will revisit the challenges of collective action in an era of “open source activism,” and highlight how the Web can help overcome those hurdles. Togetherness: The dream of the Web is a model maps our influence and values to appropriate collective action that has reached its tipping point. Oh, the excitement!

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Netsquared Slides NTC Global 100

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Open source. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Open Source – API. Each reason is clearly presented with no more text than you might put on a PowerPoint slide. The reasons are sourced from blog, news, or case study posts from a network of American Red Cross sites.

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Social Media Websites Integration Design 87

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth. Google Maps & MyMaps. Google Maps API. Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared.

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. She is a lawyer, activist and blogger , and the co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping information in near real time. .

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Program Reflection Instruction Instructional 78

Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. She re-mapped the data in Google Earth and shared the new map with community members, local politicians, and presented it at the community meeeting to a much different response. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well.

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Social Media Tools Online Advocacy 34