October Net Tuesday SF (10/14) will explore Alternate Reality Game (ARG) Superstruct, a project of the nonprofit Institute For The Future with Jane McGonigal. Join Us!
NetSquared is an initiative ofTechSoup
NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.
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Mobile News Network in Madagascar
Detailed Project Overview
After months of training on blogging, podcasting and vidcasting, we started to realize that mobile phone text messaging was the most intuitive, cheapest and most effective way of sharing news and updates from the groups.
When cataclysms occur the network will be ready to bring news from the touched area.
In fact all the Foko members have mobile phones and developed skills in updating news channels such as Twitter.
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Project URL:
http://club.foko-madagascar.org/
Stop Family Violence
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Stop Family Violence will use Web 2.0 technologies to empower local programs, enhance information sharing, help people find the services they need, promote local leadership, and coordinate activism that will keep women and children safe.
PulseWire: Connecting women to transform our world.
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
We envision PulseWire as an electrifying new tool with the power to unleash the transformative potential of women’s and girl’s voices ─ at a time when empowering women is recognized as the most effective way to solve global problems.
100 Innovators - the world's most important story has started to unfold
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
This decade, the impacts of leading social entrepreneurs will explode. It's the world's most important story, and Innovatorz.org will tell it. We produce and distribute killer online media for award winning social entrepreneurs.
Technology Vision:
We want to make it dead simple for social entrepreneurs to integrate amazing online media into their sites and to find an audience interested in their stories. Our media platform is built on Wordpress MU, SimplePie RSS, and a variety of web services like Amazon S3. We use a process called “assisted podcasting” to enable even the least tech saavy, busiest social innovator to tell their personal story online by recording podcasts with their ordinary telephone.
We are developing a system enabling organizations to not only create their own content for their web sites, but to simultaneously pull in relevant feeds and stories from other organizations and sites.
Aspiration's Social Source Commons
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
The Social Source Commons helps nonprofits find appropriate software to support their work, and share knowledge about tools. It is the only venue on the net striving to build a complete inventory of what software is available for nonprofit needs.
Dreamfish
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Sustainability requires that we get creative and work together now. The mission of Dreamfish is to help change makers to make the world thrive with creative environments and tools, across culture, generation and profession.
Huichol Cultural Survival
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
The Huichol Indians are intact as a pre-hispanic people, but their cultural survival is in peril.
Much hard work has taken place to protect this universal treasure, yet time is running out for the Huichols. We must increase our efforts now.
Venture Outdoors: The GO Guide - Linking the Community to all Things Outside
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
The Great Outdoors Guide is the focal point for a comprehensive outdoor recreation campaign. The GO Guide allows nonprofits to post content to a shared central source, and allows users to access content from any participating organization's website.
Future 5000
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Future 5000 is the largest online directory and network of progressive youth groups in the country. It is designed to strengthen our networks, maximize our resources and leverage community power.
Hear Our Pain Action Network
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
People are fed up with quality/availability of communications services. Markets and policymakers fail to listen. We aggregate data/public pain across media/telecom services, and provide means for that pain to put weight on levers of power.
