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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

Tech Soup

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Restart Romania: A Spectrum of Engagement. Restart Romania: A Spectrum of Engagement.

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Great reads from around the web on October 25th

Amy Sample Ward

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size. ."

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A Huge Thank You and My Next Steps

Amy Sample Ward

I am completely overwhelmed by the positive, kind, touching things that so many community members have shared about the work we have all done together during my time with NetSquared and TechSoup Global over the last two and a half years. He brought me on board when our team was just a few people, spread around the world.

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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. He said that roughly half of the people who participate in these challenges are programmers.

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TechSoup Global: Springing into Action

Tech Soup

Apps are a powerful way for everyday people to act for social good, making their lives, and the lives of their communities, stronger. That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. Find out what else NetSquared was up to this spring in this roundup.

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Social Media and Community-Building Tips from Not For Sale's Sarah Potts

Tech Soup

How do you talk about the enslavement of 30 million people in just 140 characters or in a simple Facebook post? How do you ask people to engage with such a horrifying subject, not just once, but over and over again? Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. or read on for a recap.