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Tell Your Community's Story with NetSquared

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We have webinar recordings , tools, and resources to help you make stories that stand out. Or if face-to-face is more your style, join your local NetSquared group — NetSquared groups are holding digital storytelling events all month. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup.

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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu. The projects varied from educational tools for children to energy efficiency.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

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This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. is an organization based out of Oakland, California. Youth Radio's mission is to connect Oakland-based young people with pro developers and entrepreneurs to. Forage Oakland project. Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab.

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The Accidental Hacker: From the Floor at National Day of Civic Hacking

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Interestingly, none of them had any experience working with mapping tools. I found that I could be of help by looking up information about various mapping tools or examples of other programs while the programmers were coding. I quickly got over my trepidation and got to work. Our group was made up of programmers with varying skillsets.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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or Code for Oakland ). NetSquared can help! The challenges invite social activists and techies to create web-based tools to tackle local issues. There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

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We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging. " Collaboration Tools. spanhidden.

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Developers and Nonprofits Come Together to Make Apps for Change

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First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. The app integrates with both Eventbrite and Meetup, favorite tools among nonprofit community organizers. Let's dive in. Identifying Nearby Resources. LocalFreeWeb.