Thu, 1 November 2007  This podcast is a presentation by Steve Miller, Product Manager for Google Earth Outreach at Net Tuesday, October 10, 2007. Google Earth Outreach is a project to enable non-profit or public benefit groups to use Google Earth to capture the work they're doing, the people they're helping, and the change they're helping to enable in the visual context of the environment in which these activities take place. Google Earth Outreach enables any organization to quickly and easily get the resources it needs to create compelling stories through Google Earth layers. Steve discusses how any organization can quickly and easily annotate Google Earth with pictures and information to tell visual, compelling stories of the work they do. Comments[0] |
Wed, 31 October 2007  Nicholas Reville is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Participatory Culture Foundation. The Participatory Culture Foundation is the creator of the Miro Internet TV platform. Miro was a Featured Project, and the Second Place NetSquared Innovation Award winner at the NetSquared Conference in May 2007. You can listen to their 5-minute pitch at the Conference here. Direct download: Interview_with_Nicholas_Reville_of_Miro.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 6:25 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 29 October 2007 This podcast is an interview by David Collin, the San Francisco Net Tuesday podcaster, with Steve Miller, Product Manager for Google Earth Outreach. Google Earth Outreach is a project to enable non-profit or public benefit groups to use Google Earth to capture the work they're doing, the people they're helping, and the change they're helping to enable in the visual context of the environment in which these activities take place. Google Earth Outreach enables any organization to quickly and easily get the resources it needs to create compelling stories through Google Earth layers. Steve discusses how any organization can quickly and easily annotate Google Earth with pictures and information to tell visual, compelling stories of the work they do. Comments[0] |
Thu, 18 October 2007  Ivan Boothe is the internet strategy coordinator for the Genocide Intervention Network,
which empowers individuals and communities with the tools to prevent
and stop genocide. He holds a degree in peace and conflict studies and
authored a thesis on third-party nonviolent intervention. His technical
skills include more than a decade of web development, including
semantic, standards-compliant XHTML and CSS, as well as extensive work
with Drupal and WordPress content-management systems. Ivan was a
co-founder of why-war.org,
which launched a nationwide campaign of electronic civil disobedience
against the voting machine manufacturer Diebold in 2003. His writings
can be found at quixoticlife.net.The Genocide Intervention Network was one of the Featured Projects at the NetSquared Conference in May 2007. You can hear their 5-minute pitch at the Conference here. A transcript of the interview is available here. Direct download: Interview_with_Ivan_Boothe_of_the_Genocide_Intervention_Network.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 9:51 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 18 October 2007 
Angela Siefer has over ten years nonprofit capacity building experience. Prior
to joining Grassroots.org, Angela served as the Executive Director of the Ohio Community Computing Network.
She is a nationally-recognized nonprofit technology expert and has
received a number of honors including the John Glenn Social Capital
& Midwest Community Networking Awards. Angela currently serves on
several voluntary boards, including the International Advisory Council
for the Public Interest Registry (PIR.org), OCCN and CTCNet. Grassroots.org was Featured Project at the NetSquared Conference in May 2007. You can hear their 5-minute pitch from the Conference here. You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Angela_Siefer_of_Grassroots.org.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 6:20 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 15 October 2007  Michael Furdyk is the Co-founder and Director of Technology of TakingITGlobal. He founded two successful Internet companies before he was 17,
selling the first, Mydesktop.com, to Internet.com in May 1999. He has
appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and in 2001 Teen People named him
one of 20 Teens that Will Change the World. He is an advisor to
Microsoft, Pollution Probe, Possibilities, and several other
organizations.TakingITGlobal was a Featured Project at the NetSquared Conference in May 2007. You can hear their 5-minute pitch from the Conference here. A transcript of the interview is available on the NetSquared Blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Michael_Furdyk_of_TakingITGlobal.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 3:55 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 3 October 2007  This podcast is an interview by David Collin of Ephrat
Bitton at the September 11 Net Tuesday in San Francisco . Ephrat is the co-founder of iCare, a web-based service that
facilitates person-to-person assistance for people recovering from
disaster. Ephrat is a PhD engineering student at Berkeley and applies
her skill in mathematical modeling to solve complex problems. With
iCare she finds ways to use underutilized capacity in transportation
systems to ship supplies to those in need at low cost. Comments[0] |
Wed, 3 October 2007 This podcast is a presentation at Net Tuesday September 11 by Ephrat Bitton. Ephrat is the co-founder of iCare, a web-based service that facilitates person-to-person assistance for people recovering from disaster. Ephrat is a PhD engineering student at Berkeley and applies her skill in mathematical modeling to solve complex problems. With iCare she finds ways to use underutilized capacity in transportation systems to ship supplies to those in need at low cost. Comments[0] |
Wed, 3 October 2007  This podcast is an interview by David Collin with Jonathan Thompson at the September 11 Net Tuesday. Jonathan is the founder of Humanlink,
an organization that helps humanitarian organizations use technology so
they may help others. Jonathan has worked in the humanitarian field
for the last six years. He has been the logistics officer for Medecins
Sans Frontieres and other organizations working in Ethiopia, Sudan,
Indonesia and Iraq/Kuwait. He talks about how the right techniques can
enable relief operations in developing parts of the world work more
cost-effectively. Comments[0] |
Wed, 3 October 2007 This podcast is a presentation at the September 11 Net Tuesday by Jonathan Thompson, the founder of Humanlink, an organization that helps humanitarian organizations use technology so they may help others. Jonathan has worked in the humanitarian field for the last six years. He has been the logistics officer for Medecins Sans Frontieres and other organizations working in Ethiopia, Sudan, Indonesia and Iraq/Kuwait. He talks about how the right techniques can enable relief operations in developing parts of the world work more cost-effectively. Comments[0] |
Fri, 7 September 2007  Inteview with Siegfried Woldhek, the founder and CEO of NABUUR. NABUUR links you directly with people around the world who need your
assistance now. All you need is a computer, a little free time, and the
desire to make a difference. NABUUR was one of the Featured Projects at the NetSquared Conference in May 2007.You can hear their 5 minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference here and read a transcript of the interview on the NetSquared Blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Siegfried_Woldhek_of_NABUUR.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 2:54 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 5 September 2007  Jim Slama is the President of the nonprofit, Sustain, and Founder of the FamilyFarmed.org project. FamilyFarmed.org is a website, food label, and EXPO that supports Midwestern
organic farmers by connecting them with consumers and commercial buyers. The project was one of the Featured Projects at the NetSquared Conference in May 2007.You can also listen to their 5-minute pitch at the Conference here and read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Jim_Slama_of_FamilyFarmed.org.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 7:36 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 2 September 2007  An audio recording from the launch of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life on August 14th, 2007. Over 100 avatars in Second Life and 60 people in San Francisco gathered to celebrate the Nonprofit Commons' launch. Speakers included Anshe Chung, Glitteractica Cookie, Jeska Linden, Coughran Mayo and In Kenzo. You can learn more about the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life at www.nonprofitcommons.org and you can watch a video from the event at netsquared.blip.tv. The recording begins part way through Glitteractica Cookie’s opening remarks. Direct download: Net_Tuesday__Nonprofit_Commons_in_Second_Life__.mp3 Category: Net Tuesday -- posted at: 12:57 AM Comments[0] |
Sat, 1 September 2007  Peggy Duvette is the Director of WiserEarth, WiserEarth is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations and individuals addressing the issues of social justice, poverty and the environment. WiserEarth was one of the Featured Projects at the NetSquared Conference in May 2007.You can hear WiserEarth's 5-minute pitch at the Conference here and read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Peggy_Duvette_of_WiserEarth.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 10:03 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 1 September 2007  Jennifer Sly is the Founder of YouthAssets, an organization committed to increasing and efficiently managing resources for youth made vulnerable by HIV/AIDs in Southern Africa. YouthAssets was one of the Featured Projects at the NetSquared Conference in May 2007.You can hear their 5-minute pitch at the Conference here and read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Jennifer_Sly_of_YouthAssets.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 9:25 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 1 September 2007  Eduardo Bejar is the Executive Director of Fundapi.org, a nonprofit foundation based in Guayaquil, Ecuador that works with information and communication technology in developing countries. Fundapi’s project, Yankana.org, was one of the Featured Projects at the NetSquared Conference in May 2007.You can hear their 5-minute pitch from the Conference here and read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Eduardo_Bejar_of_Yankana.org.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 3:42 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 30 August 2007  Jesse Patel a the Co-founder of Innovatorz Media. During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. Innovatorz was one of the Featured Projects. You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog and listen to their 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference here. Direct download: Interview_with_Jesse_Patel_of_Innovatorz.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 7:51 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 22 August 2007  Linda Alepin is the Founding Director of the Global Women's Leadership Network. The Global Women's Leadership Network (GLWN) is an international
network of women leaders who dare to transform their organizations,
their communities, and the world. During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 Projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. The Global Women's Leadership Network was one of the Featured Projects.You can hear their 5-minute pitch from the Conference here and read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Linda_Alepin_of_the_Global_Womens_Leadership_Network.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 9:19 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 9 August 2007  Interview with Randy Roberson, the Founder and President of H.E.L.P (Humanitarian Emergency Logistics and Preparation). During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. HELP’s International Telemedicine Humanitarian Emergency Mobile Medical Clinic Network was one of the Featured Projects.You can hear their 5-minute pitch at the Conference here and read a transcript of the interview on the Net2 Blog Direct download: Interview_with_Randy_Roberson_of_H.E.L.P.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 7:47 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 6 August 2007  Interview with Don Jansen Programme Manager of the DE Foundation. During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. Farmer 2 Farmer Learning was one of the Featured Projects.Farmer 2 Farmer Learning helps farmers in developing countries become more efficient and market oriented when they learn from their experiences, and the experience of their colleagues. The tool provides them with the means to learn by comparison. You can listen to their 5-minute pitch at the Conference here and read a transcript of this interview on the Net2 Blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Don_Jansen_of_Farmer_2_Farmer_Learning.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 7:37 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 2 August 2007  Allen Gunn is the Executive Director of Aspiration, a nonprofit that connects other nonprofits to software solutions that help them more effectively meet their missions of positive global change. During the Second NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. Aspiration’s Social Source Commons was one of the Featured Projects.You can hear Aspiration's 5-minute pitch at the Conference here, and read a transcript of the interview on the Net2 Blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Allen_Gunn_of_the_Social_Source_Commons.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 1:42 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 27 July 2007  Presentation by Daniel Newman at San Francisco's Net Tuesday.Dan Newman is the Executive Director and Co-founder of MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan nonprofit that illuminates the connection between money and politics. During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. At the end of the Conference, each attendee voted for the projects that they thought would have the most impact. MAPLight was the first place winner. Comments[0] |
Fri, 27 July 2007  Presentation by Ann Blocker, a moderator with
Freecycle, at the San Francisco Net Tuesday. The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups
across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of
people who are giving--and getting--stuff for free in their own towns. During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. At the end of the Conference, each attendee voted for the projects they thought would have the most impact. Freecycle was the third place prize winner. Comments[0] |
Fri, 27 July 2007  An interview by David Collin with Ann Blocker, a moderator with
Freecycle, at the San Francisco Net Tuesday. The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups
across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of
people who are giving--and getting--stuff for free in their own towns. During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. At the end of the Conference, each attendee voted for the projects they thought would have the most impact. Freecycle was the third place prize winner. Comments[0] |
Thu, 26 July 2007  Kim Lowery the co-Executive Director of Kabissa, an organization that helps African civil society organizations put information and communication technologies to work for the benefit of the people they serve. Kabissa’s project, Kabissa 2.0, was one of the Featured Projects at the NetSquared Conference in May 2007.You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog and hear their 5-minute pitch at the Conference here. Direct download: Interview_with_Kim_Lowery_of_Kabissa.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 12:52 AM Comments[0] |
Sat, 21 July 2007  Deron Beal the Executive Director and Founder of the Freecycle Network, a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. At the end of the Conference, each attendee voted for the projects they thought would have the most impact. Freecycle was the third place prize winner.You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog and hear their 5-minute pitch at the Conference here. Direct download: Interview_with_Deron_Beal_of_the_Freecycle_Network.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 2:37 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 20 July 2007  Dan Newman is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan nonprofit that illuminates the connection between money and politics. During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. At the end of the Conference, each attendee voted for the projects that they thought would have the most impact. MAPLight was the first place winner.You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog and hear their 5 minute pitch at the Conference here. Direct download: Interview_with_Dan_Newman_of_MAPLight.org.mp3 Category: N2Y2 Project -- posted at: 7:15 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 18 July 2007  Heather Cronk is the US Outreach Officer for PledgeBank, a site that allows users to set up pledges and encourage other
people to sign up to them. Direct download: Interview_with_Heather_Cronk_of_Pledgebank.mp3 Category: Net2Interview -- posted at: 10:07 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 23 June 2007  Katy Newton and Sean Connelley, producers of Not Just a Number for The Oakland Tribune, and their web affiliate insidebayarea.com, talk about the citizen journalism project.Direct download: Interview_with_Katy_Newton_and_Sean_Connelley_of_Not_Just_a_Number.mp3 Category: Net Tuesday -- posted at: 1:13 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 22 June 2007  A presentation by Jonathan Boutelle, Co-founder and CTO of SlideShare at the June 12, 2007 Net Tuesday in San Francisco. SlideShare
is a site for hosting and sharing presentations. Users can upload
their own PowerPoint presentation, view and download others, and make a
mashup of the material from the site. SlideShare is a site for shared
knowledge. Comments[0] |
Thu, 21 June 2007  An interview by David Collin, the Net Tuesday San Francisco podcaster, with Jonathan Boutelle, Co-founder and CTO of SlideShare. SlideShare is a site for hosting and sharing presentations. Users can upload their own PowerPoint presentation, view and download others, and make a mashup of the material from the site. SlideShare is a site for shared knowledge. Comments[0] |
Thu, 21 June 2007  Presentation by Cindy Li, Director of Content for Scrapblog at the June 12, 2007 San Francisco Net Tuesday. Scrapblog is a scrapbooking website designed to make
creating good-looking context for your pictures quick and easy. The
Scrapblog motto is: "create a world for your pictures." Cindy also
talks about how she used Scrapblog to create a display site for a major
nonprofit organization.Comments[0] |
Thu, 21 June 2007  An interview by David Collin, the Net Tuesday San Francisco podcaster, with Cindy Li, Director of Content for Scrapblog. Scrapblog is a scrapbooking website designed to make
creating good-looking context for your pictures quick and easy. The
Scrapblog motto is: "create a world for your pictures." Cindy also
talks about how she used Scrapblog to create a display site for a major
nonprofit organization.Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 MAPLight.org is a Featured Project at the NetSquared 2nd Conference. Project Summary After each election, does your Congressperson vote your way? Do they take money from tobacco companies? Oil companies? Pharmaceutical firms? Do they vote to lower your prescription and gas prices? Or do they vote with big-money special interests? MAPLight.org provides the information you need to hold your legislators accountable. MAPLight.org is a groundbreaking public database. We illuminate the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws. This common practice is contrary to the public interest, yet legal. MAPLight.org makes money/vote connections transparent, to help citizens hold their legislators accountable. We bring together all contributions given to legislators with each legislator's votes on every bill. We publish this key civic information on an attractive, easy-to-use free website, www.maplight.org. MAPLight.org is designed for bloggers, issue-oriented advocacy groups, journalists, and citizens leaders. We provide timely, specific information about money and votes, in the California legislature and, starting in May, U.S. Congress. Our efforts show how big-money campaign contributions affect issues that people care about, promoting transparency, accountability, and reform. We are nonprofit and nonpartisan.
With NetSquared funds, we will create customized �widgets� showing campaign contributions and votes in U.S. Congress, updated in real-time. Any blogger, nonprofit group, or citizen can create a widget for free about whatever Federal issue they are interested in. For a brief overview of MAPLight.org, see our 6-minute Video Tour. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Big Brothers Big Sisters AIM System is a Featured Project at the NetSquared Conference. Project Summary Performance figures for agencies who have converted to AIM show that they are leading all other agencies in year-to-year growth, yield rates and improved quality. They are a valuable source of system, workflow and quality enhancement ideas and are our best ambassadors. This effort is at a transition state as we both must maintain momentum to move all desiring agencies to the sytem while maturing/deepeing the ways that it can be used to "go to scale". The addition of a "volunteers portal" at both national and local public website, along with improved CRM (constituent relation management) and CMS (content management systems) capabilities will further leverage AIM. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 FamilyFarmed.org is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference. Project Summary The recent Time Magazine cover story on Local and organic food made it clear. People want healthy food they trust grown by local and organic farmers. FamilyFarmed.org is a revolutionary system that connects consumers and trade buyers with a network of family farmers and artisanal food producers. FamilyFarmed.org is the place where consumers �meet� their farmers re-establish connections with their food, their community, and the land. Buying food from local producers improves the environment, increases access to healthy food, creates jobs and economic development, prevents sprawl, supports family farmers, and combats global warming. FamilyFarmed.org is helping to create a sustainable local and organic food system by building a community of buyers and sellers of local and organic food. The system is designed to promote more transparency and accountability from producers while simultaneously creating many more opportunities for buyers and sellers to meet�both on line and in person. The FamilyFarmed.org EXPO, is a unique and successful show that brings farmers, distributors, retailers, and consumers together to network, learn from each other, and build marketing relationships. The show is profitable and is geared towards building the business of local food producers as well as highlighting leading organic and sustainable businesses. FamilyFarmed.org is ready to go to the next level by fully developing its capacity as a web community. We seek funding to fully develop content, social networking capacity, and a sophisticated marketing campaign. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 The Freecycle Network is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference. Project Summary We are creating a global gift economy in an entirely nonprofit online community at Freecycle.org. Our goal is to make it easier to give something away than to throw it away on a globally local scale with each local community having their own microsite on Freecycle.org which hooks up givers with potential recipients in their local community. Freecycle is a sort of free eBay or cyber curbside. It represents a global "paying it forward" in which each individual gives away their items which were otherwise destined to fill local landfills. Membership is free and anyone may give or receive in this free cycle of giving. The Freecycle Network was launched with one email about 3 1/2 years ago and is now active in over 75 countries with millions of grassroots members and thousands of volunteers moderating local groups. We are keeping over 300 tons a day out of landfills as a result which amounts to four times the height of Mt. Everest in the past year alone when stacked in garbage trucks. If we are to save our planet, we will need to become inspired reusers. Freecycle.org empowers individuals directly to reuse. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 WiserEarth is a Featured Project at the NetSquared Conference. Project Summary WiserEarth links organizations and people in new and powerful ways.
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Wed, 30 May 2007 Grassroots.org Toolbox is a Featured Project at the NetSquared Conference. Project Summary The internet is moving rapidly towards a model of collaborative conversation that leaves static web pages obsolete. Emerging open source technologies are rapidly redefining the cutting edge, and organizations are able to leverage these technologies to engage constituents, partners, and donors. So why doesn't every nonprofit, everywhere in the world, have the e-advocacy capacity of Moveon.org? What if every community had the social networking tools of the Omidyar Network, or the community publishing abilities of Wikipedia? The tools already exist (some were used to build this website). However, they're also difficult to configure, customize, and maintain...creating an unfortunate barrier to entry. Grassroots.org is partnering with groups such as Democracy In Action, MAIN.org, Web Targeted, StrongTech and the Chicago Technology Cooperative to host, configure, and maintain these tools for nonprofit organizations and communities everywhere in the world, for free. We'll include content management, discussion forums, e-advocacy, CRM, event registrations, and even free SEO consulting, using integrated tools based on Drupal, the DIA's Salsa platform, and Egroupware. We'll also offer the free training and support crucial to empowering nonprofits online. The internet is a conversation; it's time the nonprofit community is heard. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 YouthAssets is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference (N2Y2). Project Summary YouthAssets will develop a web-based knowledge management tool that utilizes the latest mapping technologies and collaboration tools to enable youth and their supporters to share critical information about and for HIV/AIDS orphans in Southern Africa. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Global Women's Leadership Network is one of the Featured Projects at the 2nd Annual NetSquared Conference. Project Summary GWLN is creating the network, training programs, and leadership support systems necessary to embolden and enhance the capability of women leaders worldwide. A key part of sustaining results is the availability of a vibrant social network to facilitate continuous mentoring, training and collaboration. GWLN is committed to providing this network through the use of technology. The impact of this technology will be further enhanced by the establishment of in-country academies. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 MyKenyanSpace Project: Addressing Africa's Problems Through Social Networks is a Featured Project of the 2nd NetSquared Conference (N2Y2). Project Summary Social networking has been an African way of life for centuries. It is embedded in the Ubuntu philosophy of life that translates to, �You are because we are.� It is a way of supporting each other which, thanks to technology, can now be used to solve a critical African problem. Although 80 percent of African people make a living as small farmers or in other self-employment sectors (making handicrafts, etc) they depend on middlemen to access outside markets and therefore earn very little from their labor. My project will take advantage of the spread of ICT in Africa to roll out country-specific social networking sites that will give an opportunity to African producers to network with the outside world, showcase their products. I have personally financed a Kenyan model that can eventually be replicated throughout the continent. You can view my humble contribution at http://www.mykenyanspace.net Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Yankana.org: Social Web Tools for Developing Countries is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference (N2Y2). Project Summary The digital divide that affects developing countries is more than just the lack of access to the internet. It also has to do with lack of, or minimal, content development as well as limited use of appropiate tools to get the best of the net. Taking these issues into account, how can most non profit organizations located in developing countries attempt to create content with local relevance while using appropiate tools if their technological skills are limited, usually they don't have the required hardware and sometimes not even speak english? With our help! Yankana is a project designed to help non profit organizations located in developing countries to utilize, adopt and benefit from social web tools in their fields of work, without requiring technological skills or financial resources for infrastructure, and with support in their native language. Yankana is a project created and promoted by Fundapi, a non profit organization based in Ecuador, South America, that has experience with ICT initiatives for development since 2001. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Farmer 2 Farmer Learning is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference (N2Y2). Project Summary Farmer 2 Farmer Learning aims at providing a tool to (small scale) farmers in the developing world that allows them to gain insight in the performance of their management of crops and produce and to learn from comparing their performance with that of colleague farmers. This will help farmers into becoming entrepreneurs and to gain/keep market access by being able to comply with demands of buyers for registration of crop and produce handling. The tool will be free to use and free to adapt (under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license from creativecommons.org). Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 TakingITGlobal is a Featured Project at the 2nd Annual NetSquared Conference. Project Summary In 1999, two young Canadians imagined what would happen if young people around the world could join together online to inspire each other, get informed about social issues, and become involved in their communities. Over seven years, TakingITGlobal.org has evolved from this idea into a powerful platform, a "Social Network for Social Good", with an array of programs, inspiring hundreds of thousands of young people to create a better future. A sophisticated technical platform has supported expansion into eleven languages, and Education programming has been developed to ensure a pipeline of engaged youth into the community. See the case study on us: http://www.netsquared.org/takingitglobal Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 HELP International Telemedicine Humanitarian Emergency Mobile Clinic Network is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference (N2Y2). Project Summary Disaster Relief Telemedicine is a project that brings specialist physicians from around the world to a disaster scene (via satellite) to help with medical triage and emergency medicine. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Innovatorz Media is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference (N2Y2). Project Summary The Opportunity Team & History (For more information visit innovatorz.org) Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Kabissa 2.0: Space for Change in Africa is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference. Project Summary Through this project, we will develop a strong network of African technology activists and advocates who can effectively take advantage of the many possibilities Web 2.0 has to offer. We will recruit twenty key partners throughout the continent who are very motivated to serve as "Web 2.0 ambassadors" for their local communities where they already work as well as to the larger Kabissa community of civil society organizations throughout Africa.
Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa was founded on the belief that technology is a revolutionary force for change in Africa. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Aspiration Social Source Commons is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference (N2Y2). Project Summary The Social Source Commons (SSC) helps nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations find appropriate software tools to support their programmatic work, and share knowledge about using those tools. It is the only venue on the internet striving to build a complete inventory of what tools are available for nonprofit needs, in both general and sector-specific categories.
SSC is a standards-based, open source web platform for mapping "what's out there� and �who's using what� in nonprofit software, based on a model that blends the sharing ethic and passion of nonprofit and NGO technologists with the best new internet technologies and information models. SSC builds on the "social network-driven" software selection paradigm that pervades NPO/NGO technology (�hey, what are you using for...?�), allowing users to discover tools and connect with allies by asking: * What are others using? Which tools are most popular? The platform documents the landscape of software tools available for NPO/NGO use by letting nonprofit techies compare what tools they use. The architecture is based on sites such as wikipedia.org, del.icio.us and flickr.com that leverage collaborative editability, democratic categorization schemes, and ease of use to build shared knowledge stores. SSC is designed to enable peer supported, collaborative sharing of software knowledge. SSC is not just an inventory tool; it aims to be an information "prism" through which relevant information feeds, updates, and new resources can be aggregated and redistributed per tool, per category, and per user. SSC takes advantage of the emerging RSS paradigm to "push" information to each user in a personalized fashion, and to allow other sites and sources to query and publish SSC data. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Maps 2.0: Geospatial Tools for Nonprofits and Humanitarian Relief is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference. Project Summary Since the Asia tsunami disaster in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a growing number of nonprofit and humanitarian organizations have recognized the tremendous potential of Web-delivered maps and map-based analysis. Google Earth and other Web services have demonstrated the power of online mapping tools, often known as geographic information systems (GIS) or geospatial analysis. The HumaniNet team and our nonprofit partners believe that this revolution in mapping tools will change the way we think about – and manage - programs with social, environmental, and humanitarian purposes. Geospatial, map-based data management will improve program monitoring and evaluation, reporting, overall transparency with beneficiaries and donors, and the speed and effectiveness of humanitarian responses. Maps 2.0 will establish the first nonprofit online resource for sharing best practices in GIS and digital maps. In partnership with Aspiration and Mercy Corps, HumaniNet has already formed an advisory team for creating a volunteer-based community of practice in GIS. Using Aspiration's Social Source Commons, a proven Open Source platform, the Maps 2.0 team will review and post significant and promising GIS developments and facilitate networking with other GIS experts and users. HumaniNet's experience in leading collaborative communities and partnering with over 100 global organizations will be a key advantage. The Maps 2.0 online community will be an energetic, volunteer-driven initiative that will change the way many nonprofits present information and collaborate to solve difficult problems, using the power of GIS. For an example of maps used by relief teams, see the UNOSAT map of the Solomon Islands (1MB pdf file) following the April 2 tsunami. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Miro: Open Source, Open Standards Video is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference. Project Summary We are seizing an opportunity to build a new, open mass medium of online television – through the use of Internet video. Through our nonprofit software development we’re making watching internet video channels as easy as watching TV and broadcasting a channel just as easy. Our project is relevant because:· Television is the defining medium of our culture. There's now an opportunity to create a television culture that is fluid, diverse, exciting, and beautiful. · Our platform is open-source and built on open-standards. This matters because it keeps video flowing freely. When you lock people in to closed, proprietary services, you lose everything that makes the Internet work. · Television is moving online. Will it be the same narrow, top-down cultural stagnation that we see on traditional television? All the major media and computer companies are clamoring to control video online. If they succeed it will be a disaster. · We don't have to spend years playing catch-up. Open-source and open- standards can lead this fight for the future of video online. We’re not in this to get rich. We’re in this because of our deep commitment to fully open and not-for-profit video distribution on the Web. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Genocide Intervention Network is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference (N2Y2). Project Summary Empowering anti-genocide activists with the tools for community-based education, user-generated content and strong shared connections, the anti-genocide community will pool the collective knowledge of a growing movement for change. You can read the text of the presentation here. Comments[1] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 Stop Family Violence is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference. Project Summary Every year, millions of people are severely abused in the United States. Stop Family Violence (SFV) is the leading national grassroots activist organization working to organize and amplify their voices and the voices of their allies to bring them to bear on the social and political agendas affecting their lives. Since its beginning, the strength of the violence against women movement has come from diverse people joining together, realizing their shared struggles and collective power and then raising their voices to effect social change. Research has shown that the incidence of family violence declines when the community is made aware of the problem; when residents can find services; when there is a network of leaders within the community and when services and institutions are held accountable to community needs. Stop Family Violence looks to utilize the many new technologies of the Web 2.0 revolution to empower local programs, enhance information sharing, help people find the services they need, promote local leadership and coordinate online and offline activism that will hold institutions accountable and keep women and children safe. The new SFV website will create an integrated, collaborative, service, information and action network between local, state and national programs, community activist groups, survivors and their allies. We will develop innovative community blog tools to allow our members to publish their own action alerts, build petitions and send email through our site to specified targets. Other members of the SFV community will be able to recommend (rate) the action, add comments and participate. Comments[0] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 NABUUR: The Global Neighbour Network is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference. Project Summary www.nabuur.com is an internet platform where villages in developing countries get direct assistance. Online volunteers help create whatever is needed in 150 villages now and with your help 10,000 soon: a potential revolution! NABUUR has developed a unique platform for person-to-person hands-on problem solving. Villages from developing countries put their issues on the internet and online volunteers from different continents help create solutions, as neighbours (�NABUUR� in Dutch) in the global village: a stable with cows in Khunti (India), instructions on bee-keeping in Gbongay (Sierra Leone), or an internet centre with computers and training in Zapotillo (Ecuador). The support entails more than providing knowledge: from the physical building of a hospital to the reframing of a problem; from ensuring that goods get through customs to finding transport for an international shipment, etc. Both experts and non- experts are needed. NABUUR opens the unique collaboration possibilities of internet communities to villages around the world so that they can better master their destiny . The potential is simply huge. NABUUR combines the best of the old with the best of the new: a time-tested community phenomenon - neighbourly help- with the 2.0 power of the internet. It is so promising that president Clinton invited us and mentioned NABUUR publicly (see www.nabuur.com). But even though the present rate of growth is impressive from an ngo perspective (45 villages connected in 2005, 150 in 2006, 300 at the end of 2007), it needs to speed up more to reach significant numbers. For that it must become easier, more authentic, smoother, more fun. Your help in making that happen is very much appreciated. Comments[0] |
Sun, 20 May 2007 A Net Tuesday presentation by Katy Newton and Sean Connelley, producers of Not Just a Number. Not Just a Number is a community journalism project focused on the topic of violence and violence prevention, produced for the Oakland Tribune and their web affiliate, insidebayarea.com. Last year, Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people. NJN was created to give Oakland a place to share stories and to connect and develop solutions by utilizing a variety of new media journalism tools and interactive web based technologies.Comments[0] |
Sun, 20 May 2007  A Net Tuesday presentation by Anne-Christine
d'Adesky, the Director of Global Advocacy for World Pulse Magazine's PulseWire.
PulseWire is an interactive website where women worldwide can speak for
themselves to the world and collaborate to solve global problems. Comments[0] |
Sun, 20 May 2007  Net Tuesday podcaster, David Collin, interviews Anne-Christine d'Adesky, the Director of Global Advocacy for World Pulse Magazine's PulseWire. PulseWire is an interactive website where women worldwide can speak for themselves to the world and collaborate to solve global problems.PulseWire is a tool designed by and for diverse users: a Sri Lankan market woman looking for new sources of micro-creidt, a Zimbabwean journalist documenting a crackdown in the streets with her cell phone, or a New York businesswoman offering to bring school supplies to women's groups in Cambodia. Comments[0] |
Wed, 16 May 2007 In this podcast, Dan Newman describes the inspiration for MapLight.org,
which illuminates the connections between money and politics. It
started two years ago with a car dealer's bill of rights that would
have given consumers more rights when they bought new cars. The bill
was defeated, and Dan looked into the connection between donations from
car dealers and votes. He found a strong relationship between funding
of legislators by car dealers and their votes. He started MapLight.org to bring these
relationships to the public eye. Comments[0] |
Wed, 16 May 2007 In this podcast, Jim Slama, founder of FamiliyFarmed.org,
shares the inspiration that lead him to start the project. His
inspiration began many years ago with a successful campaign called
�Keep Organic Organic� which worked to ensure the federal government
kept their definition of �organic� strict. SaveOrganic.org was the
first major use of the internet in an environmental campaign, and it
was wildly successful. In the end, 270,000 comments were collected
supporting the campaign and the media just loved it. The campaign�s
rallying cry, �Keep Organic Organic� became a national rallying cry,
and in the end the USDA put out better organic standards. That was the
beginning of Jim�s use of online tools in his activism.
After the successful campaign, Jim decided to go home to Chicago and do a buy local campaign. Unfortunately, he started shopping around at all the locally owned shops and � well � there was absolutely nothing to local to buy. It was summer, the perfect time for local farmers to supply local shops, so Jim knew something had to be done. He launched his local organic campaign, which eventually morphed ino FamilyFarmed.org, and the momentum has been building ever since. Now a lot of food is being grown organically in the region, and Jim is greatful for it. Comments[0] |
Wed, 16 May 2007 Randy Roberson, founder of HELP (Humanitarian
Emergency Logistics & Preparedness), describes how HELP organizes
mobile medicine clinics around the world during humanitarian disasters.
Three years ago, HELP incorporated telemedicine into their response to
the Tsunami disaster, and it was incredibly successful. Randy describes
the success of telemedicine and also their innovative new model for
transparent individual donations. In this new model, individual donors
can direct 100% of their funds to a specific program and actually
witness the work being done through a live webcast. Randy also
describes some dishonest practices used by some disaster organizations,
that this radically transparent model is a response to. Comments[0] |
Sun, 22 April 2007  This podcast is a presentation by Ben Rattray, the founder of Change.org at the April 10, 2007 Net Tuesday.
According to the Change.org site:
Change.org aims to transform social activism by serving as the central platform that connects like-minded people,
whatever their interests, and enables them to exchange information, share ideas, and collectively act to
address the issues they care about.
To augment the power of the grassroots networks that develop through Change.org, we help connect these networks
to the many nonprofit organizations that are already working to advance worthy causes around the world - over
1 million in total.
Ben demonstrates the features of Change.org and discusses how individuals and nonprofits are using it to build critical mass around issues. Comments[0] |
Sun, 22 April 2007  This podcast is an interview by David Collin, NetSquared's San Francisco podcaster with Ben Rattray, the founder of Change.org. According to their site:
Change.org aims to transform social activism by serving as the central platform that connects like-minded people,
whatever their interests, and enables them to exchange information, share ideas, and collectively act to
address the issues they care about.
To augment the power of the grassroots networks that develop through Change.org, we help connect these networks
to the many nonprofit organizations that are already working to advance worthy causes around the world - over
1 million in total. Ben explains why he established a site to enable people who are passionate issues to network and participate in ways not commonly available to them through established organizations. Ultimately, the goal is for the network and nonprofits to collaborate on common goals. Comments[0] |
Sun, 22 April 2007  This podcast is a Net Tuesday presentation by Gina Bianchini, the co-founder of Ning. Ning is
a platform for individuals and groups to use to create their own social
network. Ning has a rich feature set, and all features can be
configured and customized to meet the network's needs. Ning enables
users to have the experience of control of all aspects of their network
rather than being a tiny subset of a massive social network. Gina
describes how individuals and nonprofits are using Ning.Comments[0] |
Sun, 22 April 2007  This podcast is an interview by David Collin, the Net Tuesday podcaster in San Francisco, with Gina Bianchini, the co-founder of Ning. Ning is a platform for individuals and groups to use to create their own social network. Ning has a rich feature set, and all features can be configured and customized to meet the network's needs. Ning enables users to have the experience of control of all aspects of their network rather than being a tiny subset of a massive social network. Gina describes how individuals and nonprofits are using Ning.Comments[0] |
Fri, 23 March 2007  We've all heard of the KISS Principle: keep it simple, stupid! The following presentation by Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, is testimony to the notion that a simple, lower-tech approach to reaching people can sometimes be the most effective one. Ken has extensive experience with IT and telecommunications. He uses that knowledge to help nonprofits implement SMS communications technologies for reaching large numbers of people in the developing world effectively and inexpensively through the most ubiquitous communications device in the world: the mobile phone. Comments[0] |
Fri, 23 March 2007  We've all heard of the KISS Principle: keep it simple, stupid! The following interview by David Collin of Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, is testimony to the notion that a simple, lower-tech approach to reaching people can sometimes be the most effective one. Ken has extensive experience with IT and telecommunications. He uses that knowledge to help nonprofits implement SMS communications technologies for reaching large numbers of people in the developing world effectively and inexpensively through the most ubiquitous communications device in the world: the mobile phone. Comments[0] |
Thu, 22 March 2007  Can you work on tough, real world problems with a game? In this
interview by David Collin with Darian Hickman, we hear about one effort
to answer that question in the affirmative. Darian is founder of Village: Play the World of Social Enterprise,
a real-time strategy game for the PC that puts the player in the
position of an entrepreneur building companies that lift villages out
of poverty. The real goal is to get players "hooked" on emerging world
development. Eventually Darian hopes to make Village a web-based,
multi-player game.Comments[0] |
Thu, 22 March 2007  Can you work on tough, real world problems with a game? In this interview by David Collin with Darian Hickman, we hear about one effort to answer that question in the affirmative. Darian is founder of Village: Play the World of Social Enterprise, a real-time strategy game for the PC that puts the player in the position of an entrepreneur building companies that lift villages out of poverty. The real goal is to get players "hooked" on emerging world development. Eventually Darian hopes to make Village a web-based, multi-player game.Comments[0] |
Wed, 28 February 2007  Ami Dar is the founder and executive director of Action Without Borders, the organization that maintains Idealist.org.
Launched in 1996, Idealist is one of the most popular nonprofit
resources on the Web, with information posted by 65,000 organizations
around the world, and over 50,000 visitors every day. Ami was born in
Jerusalem, grew up in Peru and Mexico, and worked as a waiter,
translator, and marketing manager at a software company before starting
Action Without Borders. In the last four years the Nonprofit Times included Ami in its annual list of the 50 most influential people in the nonprofit sector, and in 2004 Ashoka invited him to join its global fellowship of social entrepreneurs. You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog. Direct download: Imagine_a_Better_World__An_Interview_with_Ami_Dar_of_Idealist.org.mp3 Category: Net2Interview -- posted at: 8:09 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 27 February 2007  Arnold Chandler is a Program Associate at PolicyLink where he conducts policy
data analysis and research studies into the innovative application of
information technology and data to community building, advocacy,
neighborhood change and revitalization, and regional development. His
research focuses on economic and community development in America's
older core cities; the digital divide and public policy; supporting
technology innovation in the nonprofit sector; electronic advocacy; and
the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for policy change.
Chandler has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and a M.S. in Telecom
Policy and Information Systems. You can read a transcript of the interview on the NetSquared blog. Direct download: E-Advocacy_the_Digital_Divide__GIS__An_Interview_with_Arnold_Chandler_of_PolicyLink.mp3 Category: Net2Interview -- posted at: 8:39 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 22 February 2007  Gregg Swanson is the Executive Director of HumaniNet, a nonprofit that provides assistance in ICT (information and communications technologies) to the humanitarian community. A
former Air Force officer and fighter pilot, Gregg served for 20 years
in line and staff positions with Air Force headquarters, NATO forces,
and operational units in Asia and Europe. He has held executive and
management positions in several Silicon Valley companies, largely in
operations and international programs. A graduate of the United States
Air Force Academy, he has studied in Germany as an Olmsted Scholar and
has graduate degrees in international affairs from the American
University and in business from Stanford University. Before founding HumaniNet in 2002, Gregg was Director of Technology at
Northwest Medical Teams in Portland, Oregon. You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared blog. Direct download: Communications_for_Humanitarian_Aid__Relief__An_Interview_with_Gregg_Swanson_of_HumaniNet.mp3 Category: Net2Interview -- posted at: 8:46 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 22 February 2007  Teresa Crawford is a strategic technology consultant based in Washington DC. She has
been working in the field of NGOs and technology since 1998. Over the
last few years she has worked in 30 countries with organizations both
large and small to help them make better use of information and
information technology in their work.You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared blog. Direct download: Internationalization_of_the_Social_Web__An_Interview_with_Teresa_Crawford.mp3 Category: Net2Interview -- posted at: 6:25 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 21 February 2007  This podcast is an interview by David Collin with Dave Sanford, Product and Business Strategist of LinkedIn. Sanford explains how non-profit organizations can use LinkedIn to bring attention to their cause.Photo by Leo Romero Comments[0] |
Wed, 21 February 2007  This podcast is an interview by David Collin with Dave Sanford, Product and Business Strategist of LinkedIn. Sanford explains how non-profit organizations can use LinkedIn to bring attention to their cause.Photo by Leo Romero Comments[0] |
Wed, 21 February 2007  This podcast is a presentation by Oz Basarir, Chief Technology Officer of the Natural Capital Institute, sponsor of the environmental activism social networking site WiserEarth. WiserEarth promotes positive social change by empowering the largest and fastest
growing movement in the world � the hundreds of thousands of
organizations within civil society that address social justice,
poverty, and the environment. WiserEarth provides tools to help these
organizations find each other, collaborate, share resources and build
alliances.Photo by Leo Romero Comments[0] |
Wed, 21 February 2007  This is a interview by David Collin with Oz Basarir, Chief Technology Officer for the Natural Capital Institute, sponsor of WiserEarth. WiserEarth promotes positive social change by empowering the largest and fastest
growing movement in the world � the hundreds of thousands of
organizations within civil society that address social justice,
poverty, and the environment. WiserEarth provides tools to help these
organizations find each other, collaborate, share resources and build
alliances.Photo by Leo Romero Comments[0] |
Mon, 12 February 2007  ChipIn's mission is to make it easy to collect money. In today's how we talk with Carnet Williams, ChipIn's CEO, about how nonprofits can use the ChipIn widget to raise money for their cause.Previously, Carnet was the Director of Clean Trade at The Nature Conservancy, the Executive Director at HiBEAM, the Director of Academic Technology at Stanford University, the Associate Dean of Information Technology at Stanford Law School, the Director of Business Development at TurboLinux, the Founder and Executive Director at NetCorps, and the Founder and CEO of Tactics.com. You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared blog. Direct download: Fundraising_with_ChipIn__An_Interview_with_Carnet_Williams.mp3 Category: Net2Interview -- posted at: 5:42 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 7 February 2007  The New Organizing Institute (NOI), is a grassroots program that trains
young, technology-enabled political organizers to work for progressive
campaigns and organizations. We interviewed Rosalyn Lemieux, NOI's Executive Director, about how organizers can use the social web for their work.Prior to coming to NOI, Rosalyn Lemieux worked for MoveOn.org Political Action in various capacities including staff trainer, online organizer, and volunteer program manager. Prior to joining MoveOn, Rosalyn operated a small independent consulting business, conducting online campaigns for progressive candidates and causes. She got her start in online organizing while serving as the Feminist Majority Foundation's web team director from 1999-2003. You can read a transcript of this interview on the Net2 blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Rosalyn_Lemieux_of_the_New_Organizing_Institute.mp3 Category: Net2Interview -- posted at: 12:36 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 1 February 2007  WorldChanging is a solutions-based journalism nonprofit that looks for the best available solutions to the world's most pressing problems. They have a blog, WorldChanging.com and a book, WorldChanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. We talk with WorldChanging's Executive Editor, Alex Steffen about how he thinks the social web can be used for social change.You can read a transcript of this interview on the Net2 blog. Direct download: Interview_with_Alex_Steffen_of_WorldChanging.mp3 Category: Net2Interview -- posted at: 6:17 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 15 January 2007  The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit
organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's
scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. In this presentation at Net Tuesday January 9, 2007, in San Francisco Barbara Cohen, Executive
Editor, and Richard Cave, IT
Director for PLoS, describe the "open access" movement in science to
publish scientific papers using the low cost platform of the web so
that scientific information can be made accessible worldwide at a
fraction of the price of current journal publishing. They discuss the
resistance from commercial publishers whose business model is
threatened by open access. However, PLoS continues to make headway and
recently launched PLoS One, an innovative platform for science publishing with the breakthrough idea of "community involvement."You can view the presentation PowerPoint here. Comments[0] |
Mon, 15 January 2007  The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit
organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's
scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. In this interview by David Collin, Barbara Cohen, Executive Editor, and Richard Cave, IT
Director for PLoS, discuss the "open access" movement in science to publish scientific papers using the low cost platform of the web so that scientific information can be made accessible worldwide at a fraction of the price of current journal publishing. They discuss the resistance from commercial publishers whose business model is threatened by open access. However, PLoS continues to make headway and recently launched PLoS One, an innovative platform for science publishing with the breakthrough idea of "community involvement."Comments[0] |
Wed, 10 January 2007  Allison Fine has been a successful nonprofit entrepreneur at local and national levels for more than 15 years successfully starting new organizations, raising
funds, building organizational collaborations and helping to lead a sea
of change in the way that nonprofit organizations organize themselves
and successfully engage their communities in social change efforts.In 1992 Allison started a national nonprofit, Innovation Network, Inc. (InnoNet), dedicated to teaching and expanding the use of participatory methods for ongoing learning and improvement by activist organizations. If you are interested in planning and evaluation tools, information and connecting with others wrestling with these issues, go to www.innonet.org. In 2004, Allison became the C.E.O. of the E-Volve Foundation. E-Volve provides seed grants for online democracy and activism efforts. More recently she has focused on writing and public speaking focused on increasing civic participation by harnessing the power of digital technology. Visit Allison's website or contact her at: afine@demos.org You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared blog. Comments[0] |
Tue, 2 January 2007  This is a presentation at Net Tuesday in San Francisco by Matt Flannery, CEO and co-founder of Kiva.org. Kiva lets people connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in
the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, ordinary people can
"sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make strides towards economic independence. Kiva partners with existing microfinance institutions. In doing so, it gains access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities
world-wide.Comments[4] |
Tue, 2 January 2007  This is an interview by David Collin with Matt Flannery, CEO and co-founder of Kiva for Net Tuesday. Kiva lets ordinary people connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in
the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, anybody can
"sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make strides towards economic independence. Kiva partners with existing microfinance institutions. In doing so, it gains access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities
world-wide.Comments[0] |
Wed, 20 December 2006  This is a presentation by Pim Techamuanvivit at the December 12, 2006, Net Tuesday in San Francisco. Pim is the author of the well-known food blog, Chez Pim. She is also the organized of Menu for Hope, an online fundraising event she organized with food bloggers to support the UN World Food Program.Comments[0] |
Wed, 20 December 2006 Pim Techamuanvivit is author of Chez Pim, a widely read food blog. This is an interview by David Collin with Pim about her interests, her blog, and about the Menu for Hope, an online fundraising event she organized with food bloggers to support the UN World Food Program.Comments[0] |
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