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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

Tech Soup

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Restart Romania: A Spectrum of Engagement. By all accounts, Restart Romania was a huge success.

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Apping Out Illegal Waste: Free Download to Target Illegal Dumps

Tech Soup

At its most basic level, you photograph the dump and post a pin on a global Trash Map. In Romania, Let’s Do It: [link] people used TrashOut to map all illegal dumps and mapped also dead horse: https://www.trashout.me/illegal-dump/6599659631935488. Check it out here: [link]. More than 100 illegal dumps were cleaned.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 1-12

Tech Soup

Get great content curation tips in Susan's recap of the TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's tweet chat. Use our newly launched Local Impact Map to learn how organizations are using technology products and knowledge to further their missions. Michael offers some suggestions for developing Your Tech Game Plan for 2012.

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Turning City Data into Apps with Apps4Warsaw

Tech Soup

Because of TechSoup Europe's involvement in other app challenges, such as Restart Romania and Community Boost_r , the organization has experience in this work. The Public Choice Award: Rollerblading map of Warsaw is an app for rollerbladers that lets users easily map and share recreational routes.

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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

Tech Soup

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). Digital Divide nptech Local impact map digital inclusion success stories tssuccessstories'

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Bridging the Digital Divide? Tell Us About It!

Tech Soup

Whether you are teaching a community about sustainable agriculture in Colorado or organizing a hack-a-thon in Romania, we want to help you tell your story. One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). Digital Divide nptech Local impact map digital inclusion success stories'

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NCVO and TAG Conference Presentations and Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The idea: The online social graph is the map being constructed by social networks of every person on the Internet and how they are connected. The week before I went from Boston to Miami to Romania and flew back to Boston via Miami to present at the TAG Conference. tags: nonprofits socialmedia ).

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