Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2013

A couple of weeks ago we hosted Steve Spiker ( @spjika ) at a NetSquared San Francisco event, who talked about how his organizations Urban Strategies Council and OpenOakland tackled data projects in Oakland, California. Check out the Netsquared blog for a detailed write-up. Open Source data NetSquared TechSoup Event apps'

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2010

Attend the Unconference: Netsquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (# 10NTC ) to learn how. If you easily listed five ideas and are fired up to share your knowledge, demo your website, share your application, or get feedback, then bring your project and join the session!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Highlights this month include website accessibility in Portland, Oregon; project management in Boston, Massachusetts; and data visualization in Las Vegas, Nevada. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Instead, we should put the problems first and invest in a project. We can’t only invest in a product.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2006

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us Britt Bravo, Netsquared Post. He is encouraging people to download and remix it or spread it. And, as you can see below, Mike Ambs, of Caliblog already has.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. The Change the Web Challenge from Social Actions is now officially open! Through a NetSquared Community vote, 20 finalists will be chosen. Individuals and organizations are invited to share their projects with the community through the NetSquared submission form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Blog Days, Blog Actions, and GTD for Blogs Perhaps inspired by Blog Day and Blog Carnivals , lately, I've been seeing coordinated "blog action" projects crop up in and around the nptech space. What do you think? Here's a growing list.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor. on NetSquared. He identifies the efforts of World Wildlife Fund and the UNEP/GRID-Arendal's OCEANIDS project as good examples of this. Open Data for Social Change. We Need Open Data To Change The World. It originally appeared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools!

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. I first heard about this from Marnie Webb, who co-founded NetSquared.

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APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. NetSquared Office Hours. Have questions about NetSquared, Net Tuesdays or innovation Challenges?

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared. Open Source data NetSquared big data'

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

TechSoup, Caravan Studios , and NetSquared were on the scene to observe and participate in hackathon events all over the country. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The Pizzigati Prize is named for Antonio Pizzigati, an MIT graduate, early web author, and leading advocate for open-source computing.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It was originally published on NetSquared. Open Source data big data crowdsourcing' (Please visit the site to view this video).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Have you ever thought about building an online space where different people can easily share their expertise on a subject or project? A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. What Is a Wiki?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared. Open Source data digital storytelling big data' Image: Edgeflip logo.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward. Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. These folks do astonishing work. For example, during a severe snowstorm on the East Coast of the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared. Open Source Privacy Security philanthropy data big data tsopensource tssecurity maps'

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared. Open Source philanthropy data big data' Why Markets for Good may go wrong.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

TechSoup's NetSquared Initiative partnered with the HRC in the first conference The Soul of the New Machine in 2009 to help select a winner in their Mobile Challenge. With numerous speakers and a packed agenda, I had a chance to hear some of the projects that's happening in this space. & Catherine T.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. There were many excellent ideas (check out the Project Gallery !)

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I've been reading Dave Cohn's blogs or " DigiDave " for sometime now and even got a chance to meet him last June at Netsquared where we interviewed each other. He is also the founder of Spot.Us, an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting," funded by the Knight Foundation News Challenge.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. It's an open source free web meeting service. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

Of course I also worked with the executive director of NTEN, Amy Sample Ward when she helped us build the NetSquared community. It is also a good place for people in nonprofit technology startups, many of them open source projects, to meet with the nonprofit technology community.

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JANUARY 27, 2008

Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Wonder if smashups are eligible?) And if you???re

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

Also announced was the winner of this year''s Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , an annual award of a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

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MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. NetSquared Community. for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. NetSquared is partnering with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center for a Mobile Innovation Challenge.

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AUGUST 17, 2007

Non-Profit Tech Blog lets us know that project agape (Facebook causes) now at 2.5 Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. million users.

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MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! New (to me) Blogs Building Foss for Society Blog is the blog for the Humanitarian FOSS Project a collaborative, community-building project that was started by a group of computing faculty and open source proponents at Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Connecticut College.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

A screencapture from a recent weekly meeting for TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons project in Second Life. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services. Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software. And if you???re

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