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NetSquared's Tips for Creating a Successful App-for-Good Event

Tech Soup

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. More and more coding events are welcoming a greater range of people, not just technically minded folks. Hackathons, coding sprints, app challenges, oh my! Bring to the Table a Diverse Audience and Participants with a Shared Passion.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. iPad, iPhone, MacOS) is a student planner that helps you keep track of your class schedule, track your grades and GPA, manage homework assignments, and create an interactive calendar. Additional Resources.

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For more and more of the best young technical minds, it’s no longer enough to line up their talents behind selling toothpaste on the web. It’s a student crowd, including grad students, and it’s a first job — of the “Is this all there is?&# They want their brains to matter. Some of them are a bit p.o.ed

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. where Ushahidi won its first challenge!).

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Basic Blogging for Women Workshop

Have Fun - Do Good

In early July, I posted about a Basic Blogging for Women Workshop I'd be teaching this fall, but after talking to some prospective students, I decided that it was important to find a space where everyone could be on a computer, so I changed the date and the venue so that we can be in a computer lab.

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Interview: Kedar Iyer, PickyPolly

Amy Sample Ward

His learnings come from experiences that span an education in electronics and telecommunications, multi-cultural professional engagements in software development and communications, a business administration student life in pretty Paris and experiments in implementing technological solutions for social challenges.

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