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Mashups with Social Impact for the NetSquared Mashup Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

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Win $10,000: Netsquared/Network for Good Donate Now Mashup Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How would you mashup the Network for Good donation processing service with other services to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money online? Submit your ideas to the DonateNow Mashup Challenge sponsored by the Case Foundation by May 19.

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2009 Golden Dot Awards: Voting is Open

NTEN

Considering many of you are advocacy organizations, you might be interested in the Golden Dot Awards: Golden Dot Awards recognize achievement in online politics. Vote here for the 2009 Golden Dot award winners. It looks like there are about 20 award categories, including: Technology Impact Moment. Best Candidate Blog.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

In January, the NYC BigApps competition will award a $20,000 cash prize and lunch with Mayor Bloomberg to the developers of the most creative applications using NYC data. Independent programmers have used the data to develop a range of innovative mashups an mobile apps, which the city lists in its App Showcase. Tell us in the comments.

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Win Up To $15,000 in Sunlight Labs Mashup Challenge

NTEN

Here's the lowdown: Apps for America will award developers for the best applications, based on data from Sunlight and its partners, that make Congress more accountable, interactive, and transparent. > There's also a second place award of $5,000, four third place awards of $1,000 each, and 10 honorable mentions at $100 each.

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News from NetSquared: Case Studies, Microsoft Development Challenge, and N2Y4 Registration Open!

Tech Soup

They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. Last year's Mashup winner — Ushahidi — is the topic of the first case study. Winners will receive cash awards of $15,000 (first place), $10,000 (second place), and $5,000 (third place). This year's "Featured Projects" are here.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. 2) Crowd Creation.

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