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Win $10,000: Netsquared/Network for Good Donate Now Mashup Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How would you mashup the Network for Good donation processing service with other services to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money online? Submit your ideas to the DonateNow Mashup Challenge sponsored by the Case Foundation by May 19.

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Government 2.0 Presentation from Tara Hunt

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Quoting from annotation in the presentation: Conclusion: What if??? There was a connected desktop app that every citizen who owned a computer could download that would be their window into their information ??? connected to the Government platform. It would be wikified, so they could append it and correct it with a ???recent recent changes???

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Social Actions’ Change The Web Challenge in Oxford

Amy Sample Ward

Agenda : Peter Deitz, founder of Social Actions, will present his vision for an open philanthropic web. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. Romina Oliverio will explain how you can help the Change The Web Challenge. Learn about the Open Actions XML micro format, and how you can use it.

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. It hopes to bring the price down from the present $200 to make it affordable for the African market. I first heard about this from Marnie Webb, who co-founded NetSquared. Find out more about this here.

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Ushahidi's Next Steps

Tech Soup

We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. In short, Ushahidi aggregates information from text messages and other media, presenting a clearer picture of a crisis situation as it emerges. read more.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I presented this seminar to University Extension Professionals. One thing you'll notice is that the presentation itself is a remix of a remix. The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. The title was " Ten Steps to Extension 2.0

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Student creating a presentation in college? Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. University?

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