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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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A Huge Thank You and My Next Steps

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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. All those working on other TS community projects ; Susan, Megan, Jessica, Evonne, Kristy and others.

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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. Video : TechSoup Romania. Making Everybody Part of the Process of Problem-Solving.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 1-12

Tech Soup

Get great content curation tips in Susan's recap of the TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's tweet chat. From NetSquared. Sarah reports on the Public Access Technology Benchmarks project. From Our Other Projects. What do you think of some of the projects we're working on here at TechSoup?

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Social Media Tips from the TechSoup Global Network

Tech Soup

Read a recap of TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's Tweet Chat , which explored content curation and discussed the best tools for it. NetSquared. NetSquared Local groups from around the world are using social media in a variety of ways to promote and collaborate on innovative projects.

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TechSoup Global: Springing into Action

Tech Soup

TechSoup's SafeNight and Caravan projects are described in Making Data an Afterthought. 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.

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Turning City Data into Apps with Apps4Warsaw

Tech Soup

Paulina Sobieszuk, the Apps4Warsaw project manager, said that the project started several years ago. "It wasn't by accident that we were approached as a partner for this project," says Alicja Peszkowska, communications specialist at TechSoup Europe. A Contest Built on City Data.

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