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Growing the NetSquared Community

Tech Soup

The Ambassadors are senior NetSquared leaders who offer their support to other organizers in their country or region, allowing us to serve members in different time zones and in languages other than English. We've been testing the Ambassador model for the last two years, and it has been been instrumental in the growth of NetSquared.

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Data Digest — Maps, Trends, and a Social Progress Index

Tech Soup

on NetSquared. The need for open data from NGOs is reiterated, while the way philanthropy has promoted the global Open Government Partnership is explained. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified. Big Data Right Now: 5 Trendy Open Source Technologies. It originally appeared. Data Measurement.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" — a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire."

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. Here's a growing list. He outlines what each group can learn from one another.

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Future Tech Panel at Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gave a great simple definition of open source software: access to code, users modify, anyone can redistribute, public collaborative development. Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc. He shared some recent examples, including those from Netsquared. grab attention quickly. psa don't work.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How will these trends impact nptech? News from Nigeria via the Netsquared blog. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. How was it organized?

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