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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

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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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Content Curation Tweet Chat Recap

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Last month, TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's hourlong tweet chat explored content curation and the best tools for it. Curating content requires deciding what to gather, filtering and organizing information, and finding the common threads to present a story. The curator decides where and how the content is presented.

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TechSoup Global: Springing into Action

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TechSoup's Jim Lynch presented on a panel discussion hosted by the U.S. 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. The ReStart Romania. Initiative.

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Turning City Data into Apps with Apps4Warsaw

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Because of TechSoup Europe's involvement in other app challenges, such as Restart Romania and Community Boost_r , the organization has experience in this work. "Real-time data seems to be the most popular because it is very useful — and you can present it in a visually attractive way in an application," Sobieszuk said.

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

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You can watch the full presentation (she's a great speaker - I recommend watching it!), Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. Check out the full presentation for many more tips on engaging your community via these and other platforms. or read on for a recap. Choose Your Message.