Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

or Code for Oakland ). NetSquared can help! There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust. But more than anything, hackathons are fun events to network and meet allies interested in supporting your cause.

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MAY 7, 2007

The same people who produced "Going Within", 49th Parallel Productions , have also created Not Just a Number , a community journalism project for The Oakland Tribune which focuses on the topic of violence and violence prevention. Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2013

My group started out by considering Crowdmap (from NetSquared alumnus Ushahidi ), but ended up going with Google Fusion and Google Maps to create the project. I also discovered that I could provide the perspective of the end-user — the volunteer or activist who was actually going to be using the app in the field. "Keep it simple!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. 7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. For more information about TransFair USA go to www.transfairusa.org Britt Bravo also blogs at Have Fun * Do Good , NetSquared and BlogHer.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Join your local NetSquared group. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs and HandsOn Tech. Oakland, CA: Office 365 for Nonprofits. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Monthly Meetup. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Monthly Meetup.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Or if face-to-face is more your style, join your local NetSquared group — NetSquared groups are holding digital storytelling events all month. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Looking for inspiration? Storymakers Events.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. Steven Flower, our wise NetSquared organizer in Manchester, England, believes that for our personal sanity and betterment of the planet, we should all take a break from all this Information Age sound and fury. Digital Refugees.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. So we started in our small apartment in Oakland, it was about 750 square feet.

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