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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.