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We are proud to announce the launch of the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge. Brought to you by the Global Development Commons. 
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Government agency that delivers economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide on behalf of the American people, is sponsoring a challenge to find the best in mobile innovations for good.

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Hey Folks, 

NetSquared will be undergoing some scheduled maintenance over the weekend and access to the site may be limited at times. Not to worry, we’ll be back up and running strong by Monday morning for the launch of the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge.

See you then!

The NetSquared Team

It's time again for the Net2 ThinkTank!  Here's a question for everyone to think about, blog about, and discuss.  Thanks to Marie Deatherage for helping with it, too!

Topic:
What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?

Deadline:
Saturday, October 18th

How to contribute:

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As I mentioned before, the NetSquared team has been hard at work building a shiny new submission form!  You can log in to check it out for yourself!

What's this all about?

A quick update from the NetSquared team!

There's been a lot of hard work taking place behind the scenes at NetSquared on a shiny new project submission form!  You'll be able to view and use this new form soon - sometime in early October.  So, if you were looking to submit a project, you just need to a wait a little longer and we'll be set!

Great news for everyone - Thanks!

Hello NetSquared. Joe, Eric, Christine, and I wanted you all to be among the first to know about the latest web application from Social Actions. This one is a biggy. It would never have come together without the support and connections we made at N2Y3.

Below is a excerpt from the launch announcement, called AdWords-Style Widget Recommends Related Ways to Take Action

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Okay, time for an update to let you know what we've been doing at Ushahidi with the winnings from the NetSquared Challenge.

Ory and I are madly dashing around Kenya, meeting with local NGOs and users to determine what we need to build into Ushahidi's Engine (version 2). We helped sponsor the local Barcamp Nairobi, which was a huge hit and brought us even more developers.

The NetSquared, Cisco and the other sponsors put on a great event. Here are some of the folks I worked with at the registration table in the morning.

Jayson Fagar & Colleen Nagle, NetSquared staffers, at the registration table.

Join in the Celebration of the Launch of the Second Nonprofit Commons Sim! Nonprofits and their supporters will be hosting a mixed reality grand opening celebration in San Jose as part of the NetSquared conference and in the metaverse on Wednesday, May 28, 2008, starting at 10:00 A.M. PST/SLT (Second Life Time), in the new second Nonprofit Commons location.

Highlights:

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We're developing a widget for GreenerOne that will allow members to display how many people they've helped to make a 'green' decision during their purchase.

We need the help of a facebook developer.

We're building out the backend to intergrate with GreenerOne product reviews and need somebody who can help us intergrate the widget on facebook. The widget is pretty straight basic, it's just a dynamic PNG generated when somebody loads a page and has info about the GreenerOne's reviews.

In preparation for the NetSquared Mashup Competition, MoveSmart.org has recorded and posted to drafts of our two 2-minute pitches. Please send any thoughts / comments / suggestions to justin at movesmart dot org or leave a comment here, and if you're a fellow featured project and would like our feedback on your pitches please let us know. Thanks!

opening statement (.mp3)

closing statement (.mp3)

Many NGOs are good at forming strategic alliances to achieve their objectives (they're usually also good at competing each other nearly to death, often at the same time, but I'll keep that for a different post maybe). Yet, at the level of web technology, this usually seems to be limited to the level of exchanging tips and tricks, perhaps some RSS feeds, and referring each other to providers and vendors.

Two major developments are changing that situation now:

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In my third year coming to NetSquared, I find myself in a new role: as one of 21 designated "project leads" who will be trying to connect the featured projects with the developers ready to work on an NGO project.

I'm working with Roshani Kothari and Michael Litz of the Oneworld Connect project, and together we've started a wiki page with what we'd like to work on. I'm posting the story here too: please help us develop this further, shape our thoughts, and connect our ambitions to the endless possibilities :-)