Join us for the San Francisco Net Tuesday on September 9:
Involver: How Nonprofits Can Create Video Campaigns for Social Networks.
NetSquared is an initiative of TechSoup
NetSquared enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social web.
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Inter. Act!: the Future Nigeria
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Following the return of democracy to Nigeria, there has been an explosion of Non-Governmental organizations. We want to employ the social web to build needed credibility and visibility for those NGOs who are honestly committed to making change.
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.
iLoveMountains.org - an online campaign to end mountaintop removal coal mining
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
www.iLoveMountains.org is an online campaign to end mountaintop removal mining. Using innovative new technologies, the site tells the story of more than 470 mountains destroyed and 1000 miles of streams buried to meet our demand for cheap energy.
Digital Divide Data's project: A networking resource for disadvantaged people in Cambodia and Laos
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
DDD provides socially responsible outsourcing services to clients and creates better futures for our employees in Cambodia and Laos. DDD will build an online forum for our graduates as a way to provide ongoing networking and growth opportunties.
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.
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.
OpenPlans.org
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
OpenPlans is a free, hosted, and integrated suite of web-based tools intended to give active citizens the resources they need to organize virtually to effect real world change.
