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In the 19th century, do-it-yourself x-ray kits became hugely popular as people x-rayed their own boots, hands, and plants (not to mention weirder stuff) to find out what the invisible world really looked like. Wired's Alexis Madrigal has a great article series with links to San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art's Brought To Light: Photography and the Invisible exhibit exploring these DIY pictures as part of the social consequences of x-rays and photography of the period.

"None of us on our own can change the world, not governments, not businesses, not charities. We succeed when we work together."  That's the premise of Chain Reaction, an event that brings together social leaders, community activists, policy makers, business leaders, young people and people like you from around the globe to share learning and to generate new ideas for social change, locally, nationally and globally.

What's Chain Reaction?

Replyforall is a new tool that lets you support nonprofit causes in a sustainable way: your email signature!  Their just-launched Your Message, Your Vote contest could mean your favorite nonprofit wins $10,000!

How does replyforall work?

Replyforall is built on the knowledge that we all send a lot of emails - to our friends, our colleagues, our family.  We have a lot of emails, and replyforall helps us change all of the emails we have into things we can do!

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NABUUR is an online community that connects individuals with communities in developing countries, and together they formulate plans and projects to address local issues and sharing the solution-making.  The connection and process is less about giving money, and more about sharing ideas, knowledge, skills, and connections.  And now you can hear about opportunities to get involved through Social Actions!

Periodically we here at TechSoup like to share what we're reading. The latest blog gem that I've added to my feed reader is Cause Global, a blog which covers social media for social change and the people involved in using technology tools to make the world a better place.

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Millions of voices will unite to speak out about positive change in New Orleans during the week of August 25th - the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The “New Orleans 100” initiative will highlight and encourage discussion among millions about 100 of the most innovative and world-changing ideas to take root in the city since Katrina.

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Josh Levy, who is awesome, and I talk about his new job a managing editor at Change.org, what he's learned at techPresident, and why he believes that just writing blogs won't change the world.

What is your role at Change.org?

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Thank you kbaird for the photo!

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A bit late I write my feedback from the Social Innovation Camp (sicamp08), which luckily had the chance to join. I first heard about it from Dan McQuillan, who is one of the initiators and also has a great blog.

The KnowMore.org Firefox Extension is currently seeking a volunteer Firefox extension developer to help us develop a beta in time for the NetSquared Conference (May 27-28th).

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Happy St. Paddy's Day! In sunny FL, we've been up for hours waiting for you to wake up - we're hoping you'll spread the luck o' the Irish & vote for us here after reading more about our entry. Our original submission was a little less complete than we'd planned, but we've included many more details below, including examples, a use case diagram, an expanded list of potential data sources & shared services and many compelling statistics that illustrate why we believe this tool could have incredibly broad application & appeal, so read on:

THE WHAT?