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Great reads from around the web on July 19th

Amy Sample Ward

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Age Segmentation in Social Networking | NetSquared – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your thoughts and best practices for using social media with or for a particular age group. As she notes, her example has luck but it is an example of a growing model of a changing world.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. Dd is also testing low cost drones that locals can use and repair to perform aerial photography and surveying. netsquared digital divide' " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. For example, one of the projects presented was called "Netflix at My Library." NetSquared can help! Library Hackathons. Libraries have also been getting in on the hacking fun.

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Experimentation: Key to Happy Nonprofit Tech Adoption, and Life?

Have Fun - Do Good

Beth Kanter Although I've known Beth Kanter for a long time, and we write for BlogHer and NetSquared together, I've never heard her present until today when she gave the keynote at the 2008 Making Media Connections Conference. "Tools come and go, but a strategy based on experimentation sustains."--Beth

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two grantees that work on Children’s Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters. Ivan Booth is doing a meet up and live stream for the Philly Netsquared meet up on August 2nd at 6:00 PM EST about Google +.

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Coding Basics: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Explained

Tech Soup

The following blog post recaps a NetSquared Toronto presentation by Sarah Lesh, a front-end web developer at hjc. You can watch her full, in-depth presentation. Here's the basic structure of a line of HTML code: Opening tag: Content: Following the opening tag, we insert the content we want to present.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 NpTech Talk. The Socialmarkets Manifesto is here.

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