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June 13 Deadline: NPower Greater DC Region '08 Tech Innovation Award

June 11, 2008 - 11:06pm

Helping Nonprofit Technology Blog author, Jocelyn Harmon, spread the word about her org's upcoming award deadline . . .

"Is Your Nonprofit Using Technology to Fundraise, Communicate, Advocate, Collaborate – Change the World? Then we want to hear from you!

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What are your favorite examples of using social networks for social change?

June 11, 2008 - 9:41pm

Thank you kbaird for the photo!

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Juana Cholotio's Story

June 11, 2008 - 3:11pm

This is the first in a series at WeBuyItGreen called Fair Trade Gifts that Change the World, which attempts to show how buying fair trade goods impacts the lives of the individuals who produce them.

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New Net Tuesday: Douala, Cameroon!

June 9, 2008 - 2:10pm

I'm always excited when a new Net Tuesday group starts to form, but I am especially excited about our newest Net Tuesday starting in Douala, Cameroon!

They are looking for co-organizers, presenters, and other interested folks.

If you want to get involved, email Asama abel Excel, President and CEO of Ivission International at excelasama@yahoo.fr

Flickr photo credit: Another Douala Rainbow uploaded by Trav and Nan Colbert

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Beth Kanter and I Will Be At Net Tuesday Chicago and Making Media Connections This Week

June 9, 2008 - 1:42pm

Hey Chicagoland!

Beth Kanter and I are coming to your town this week.

We'll be joining Chi-Town's social changemakers and web innovators at Net Tuesday Chicago on June 10th from 6-8 PM at ITA (Illinois Technology Association).

June 11th and 12th we'll be speaking at the Making Media Connections Conference 2008 presented by Community Media Workshop.

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Volunteer Abroad International Programs Orphanages, Schools, Clinics, Building Projects www.abroaderview.org

June 8, 2008 - 7:42pm

Volunteer Abroad Programs - Volunteering Work Opportunities

Volunteer abroad: Life experiences and world travel contribute much to our ability to deal with the unexpected, function in a strange environment or culture, and learn new skills, all of which increase confidence and decision making abilities. You can Volunteer now and gain a broader view of the world!

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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

June 6, 2008 - 11:38pm

During the past few weeks, Twitter has been down or out due to stress. To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. When a service goes down, users will complain. And if happens a lot, they may move on. There was much speculation as to whether they mover to Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or Pownce, BrightKite, Tumblr, plurk or FriendFeed.

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TechSoup Talks Twitter: Free Webinar June 9 and Online Event June 10

June 6, 2008 - 4:57pm

Cross-posted from the TechSoup Blog:

"Mark your calendars for two free TechSoup Twitter events: TechSoup Talks Twitter: Webinar June 9 and Online Event June 10 .

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Interview with Micah Sifry + Special Net2 Discount to Personal Democracy Forum

June 6, 2008 - 4:24pm

"If you are a political hack who is dealing with life in a networked age, or a hacker who is into politics and wants to drive change forward, this is the place to be."--Micah Sifry

This year's 5th Annual Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) has been expanded to two days, June 23-24, and will be held in New York City at Rose Hall, the new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Keynoters include: Elizabeth Edwards, Michael Arrington, Vint Cerf, and Craig Newmark. Presenters Include: Arianna Huffington, Lawrence Lessig, Mayhill Fowler, Ana Marie Cox, Robert Scoble, Josh Marshall, Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Trippi, Gilberto Gil and many more...

Sounds awesome, doesn't it? Well, guess what? PdF is offering a special discount to the NetSquared Community.

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Notes from the International Conference of Community Psychology

June 5, 2008 - 8:38pm

Greetings from the Lisbon Poets Hostel in Portugal. I will make this post quick, since I´m terribly confused by the punctuation on this keyboard, and should probably rest before my presentation tomorrow, but I want to share my experiences today, while they´re still fresh in my mind.

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Notes from Net Tuesday SF: YouTube Nonprofit Program with Maryrose Dunton

April 10, 2008 - 1:52pm

Maryrose Dunton, the Head of User Experience at YouTube, spoke to Net Tuesday San Francisco this week about the YouTube Nonprofit Program (be sure to check out the new look of their landing page).Here are a few notes from her presentation: read more

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NpTech Tag Summary: Facebook Apps for Good and GTD

April 10, 2008 - 9:38am

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent. It came back last month in a new format and aggregation process. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. read more

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CHILD has stormed INDIA with exciting gifts and reasons for parents to feel special..

April 10, 2008 - 6:57am

Hi everyone! A brand new parenting magazine called CHILD has been launched..Its a great breakthrough in the parenting fraternity..Its got exciting features and a COVER HUNT CONTEST is being held which would give your child an instant fame overnight..So,what are you waiting for,c'mon come and grab a copy of CHILD...

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What is the Attention Economy and What Does it Mean for Nonprofits?

April 9, 2008 - 6:40pm

This month's Net2ThinkTank question is, "How can nonprofits and NGOs succeed in the online attention economy?" A few folks have contacted me to say, "I'd like to participate, but I don't really understand what the attention economy is," so, here is a little more info: Wikipedia defines attention economics as, "an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems." In his ReadWriteWeb post, Attention Economy: All You Need to Know, Richard MacManus writes: "A key point is that The Attention Economy is about the consumer having choice - they get to choose where their attention is 'spent'. Another key ingredient in the attention game is relevancy. As long as the consumer sees relevant content, he/she is going to stick around - and that creates more opportunities to sell." In the case of nonprofits, organizations are trying to keep supporters and potentional supporters' attention in order to "sell" the opportunity to make a difference in the world through the channels and services their organization provides (information, donation, membership, volunteering, advocacy, media creation etc.). In his post, Why Words Matter in the Attention Economy, Steve Cebalt of the Nonprofit PR blog writes:read more

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Results of March presentation

April 8, 2008 - 10:18pm

The following was presented tonight at the April meeting of Houston's chapter. As last month's presenter, we promised Ed Schipul, the organizer, an account of the activity received from NetSquared members' leads, etc. NetSquared Works! Results of March 2008 Presentation by CathARTx read more

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The Hunt For Contributors

April 8, 2008 - 9:40pm

The hunt continues for finding contributors for our project, but being one of the winners sure does help. Our corporate malfeasance wiki, Crocodyl.org has attracted a large number of qualified and interested people, so reaching out to those folks has been really useful. We have one contributor who works for Mozilla, some people from Wikileaks and a couple of avid Wikipedians with expert technical know-how, so we are keeping our fingers crossed that these folks will join up officially soon. Anyone interested in helping out, please contact me at ian [at] corpwatch.org. Thanks!

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TechSoup's Susan Tenby On the Daily Show's "Avatar Heroes"

April 8, 2008 - 2:40pm

Last week, TechSoup's Senior Manager of Online Community Development, Susan Tenby, was one of the people who testified before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. The hearing's topic was, “Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium."read more

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Social Innovation Camp: speed-startups for social impact

April 8, 2008 - 10:55am

Social Innovation Camp happened this weekend, and it rocked. Inspired by a mashup of netsquared, barcamps and seedcamp, it brought together a diverse bunch of hackers & social change activists to cook up prototype projects over the space of a weekend. And it worked. People brought dedication, passion and skill. They had some fun. They went without much sleep. Two things stood out for me; first, it proved (again) that the social web is a generative platform for social impact; and second, that it's possible to do events that go beyond talk and lead to real projects and social businesses. But of course, that's the business of netsquared as well :) Our small organising collective is now recovering, er, aiming to help the projects sustain and grow. There'l be a lot of write-ups, inteviews, videos etc coming out of the camp - more of this later. In the mean time here's a flavour; Posts by Bobbie Johnson, our embedded Media Guardian blogger:

My late-night half-way analysis; Live from Social Innovation Camp, the laboratory of buzz A view from Yahoo Developers Network. All the feeds from our backnetwork (warning: includes tweets!) Photos on Flickr. Videoclips and mini-interviews by David Wilcox at Qik YouTube videos tagged with “sicamp” and “sicamp08“ (mostly by The People Speak team) "Teamwork, Quick!" by participant Huey Nhan Enthusiasm from a sponsor (which is nice!) at Accelerating Social Innovation: lessons from SiCamp where Roland Harwood says "On of the big lessons for me of the weekend was how limited organisation can unleash ideas, which is counter-intuitive for many". read more

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NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) Registration Open

April 7, 2008 - 12:36pm

We've opened registration for the 2008 NetSquared Conference (N2Y3). The Conference will be held at Cisco Systems' Vineyard Conference Center in San Jose, California on May 27 and 28 (just after Memorial Day). Cisco Systems has been our generous host for the previous two NetSquared Conferences. Conference attendees will help to develop and release the mashups proposed by the 21 Featured Projects that the Net2 Community chose during the NetSquared Mashup Challenge:read more

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Join Net2ThinkTank: How Can Nonprofits and NGOs Succeed in the Online Attention Economy?

April 4, 2008 - 4:35pm

One of the many cool things about the social web is how it gives nonprofits and other social benefit organizations the tools to make their own media and to reach more people. On the other hand, as more nonprofits, businesses and individuals create blogs, podcasts, rss news feeds, wikis, social networks, YouTube accounts, Twitter feeds, fundraising widgets, mashups etc., the amount of media, news and calls to action flowing into potential supporters' feed readers and email in-boxes is tremendous. The Net2ThinkTank question for this month is:read more

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