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!
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Open Green Map, Phase 2
Post-NetSquared, Summer's been lots of fun at Green Map as our team grew. By the end of July, we completed Phase 1, and opened the http://OpenGreenMap.org website to our network of locally-led Green Map projects. In the few days since, the first 35 maps are being charted and about 1000 sites have been charted.
Building a community network with Plone
I'm organizing the "Building a community network with Plone" session on May 28th, and would love feedback on what folks would like to hear and discuss.
The Davis (California) Community Network is a 501c3 that promotes the use of Internet technologies for local and regional community building. One of our key jobs is building the capacity of area non-profits, and one of our key tools is the Plone Content Management System. DCNs servers are now hosting something over 70 CMS sites for local non-profits and government agencies -- many of whom don't even know what a CMS or Plone is.
Thank you for Opening the Door!
Here at Green Map System, we're tickled pink to be among the 21 featured projects for N2Y3! Thanks much to all who voted for us and are already connecting to share ideas, resources and advice! This project is getting better, day by day, with your involvement.
Our work on this project really began in Fall 2007. Among other things, we floated a few different names out to the Green Map network. Open Green Map was their top choice, but we decided to test out a few other options, including My Green Map, as working names. As we used the different names, we watched the reactions.
choosing The Second Road saves lives and sends Hope!
Well, in the true tradition of early stage START-UP, we haven’t had a moment to reach out and TOUCH you, our fellow amazing organizations and organizers. However, given the blessing of an extended voting date, we thought we’d take this time to let you know who we are , what we’re up to, and why you should vote for us!
Sourcetree Commons: Geeking our way to a better world
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
To develop better social software, we must use these very tools in the communities that are building them. We leverage social software to amplify the creative power of geeks and provide increased resources, efficiency, feedback and support.
HIV Collaborative Fund
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Shouldn't people living with AIDS be involved in figuring out how AIDS money is spent? We raise the money. People living with HIV/AIDS around the world decide where the money goes through a process relying on social networking and technology.
Hooze & Wagn: Organically Grown Public Data on Products and Companies
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Hooze.org and its Wagn underbelly are for collaboratively gathering and broadcasting convenient, trustworthy public data about products and companies. With wiki spirit and database power, Hooze gives citizens a new economic voice.
My First Blog Entry to Tell U about my OTHER Blog!
Hello Net2 world! I just wanted to test out the blogging capability here and direct everyone to my other blog, at the CTC VISTA Project at UMass Boston:
http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/vista/blog/danielle_martin/
From there, I'm writing about my work as the Curriculum Coordinator this year as an AmeriCorp VISTA, as well as my work as the Assistant Editor of the Community Technology Review.
Could Google Earth revolutionize (GIS)
REPOSTED
From: David Geilhufe
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:05 AM
To: ctcmembers
Subject: Re: [ctcnet] Could Google Earth revolutionize CTC work?
Another factor for CTC's in leveraging GIS for their work is the
release of CiviCRM. CiviCRM is open source, nonprofit-centric
constituent relationship management (CRM) software. Think of it as
an open source version of Kintera/Convio.
CiviCRM has a nice little google maps integration that could allow a
CTC to easily collect and store their own data and "automagically"
Bringing Wikimania to Boston
Toronto and Boston are currently competing to play host to Wikimania 2006, which will be an international gathering of those involved in the Wikimedia Foundation's various projects.
Although I'm very much a novice in this world, having just begun to learn how to edit Wikipedia articles, I'm delighted by the possibility that a large numbers of wiki-oriented geeks from many countries will land in Massachusetts next summer to discuss online projects for making knowledge in the public interest more accessible. (Here's a sample of these projects: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, and Wikinews.)
Yesterday evening, I attended the local Wikipedia Meetup, convened by Sj, for a discussion of plans for Wikimania 2006. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has very generously offered facilities at Harvard Law School, and Sj is busy lining up all the other necessities.
The Boston area's nonprofit technology community is becoming more cohesive than ever, and I'm hoping that we can welcome and make common cause with the Wikimaniacs if they come here. There's so much talk about Web 2.0, in which we will take online tools to the next level. Both the Wikimedia community and the nonprofit technology community are dedicated to collaboration in the service of noble causes, and therefore we would do well engage each other in dialogue about how Web 2.0 can help us achieve our goals.
