Welcome to the NetSquared Press Room

Here you will find basic information about NetSquared, press releases, media coverage and other related materials. You can also visit the Community Blog for the latest stories, news, and information from the NetSquared team and global Community.

For additional information, please direct all press-related inquiries to:

• Amy Sample Ward, Global Community Development Manager
  

• Email: asampleward@techsoup.org
  

Media Coverage from 2009

June 11, 2009
The Doctor is Only an SMS Away
Good Magazine
By Morgan Clendaniel
In the developing world, most communities don't have access to a hospital, let alone a doctor. Valiant community health workers sometimes serve rural villages, but they don't have the training or technology to assist with major medical problems. The distance between village and hospital, both in terms of travel and communication, often spells doom for residents....

June 8, 2009
Nonprofits Blaze Virtual Trails in Second Life Mixed Reality Lounge
The Huffington Post
It was a day-long "Mixed Reality Lounge," hosted by the NonProfit Commons, an online community initiative of nonprofit TechSoup Global...

June 4, 2009
Netsquared 2009: Making the Virtual Proximal
The Huffington Post
By Allen Gunn
What the Netsquared conference really bears out is the essential role that live events still play in weaving the fabric of social networks...

June 3, 2009
mHealth Keynote from Brooke Partridge from NetSquared Conference
Health 2.0 Best Practices for the Healthcare Industry, Clinicians, Patients and Consumers
By Pam Strayer
Brooke Partridge presented her overview of mHealth initiatives worldwide. See the slides in these photos for the presentation...

June 2, 2009
NetSquared Conference: Mobile Endeavors for Social Change
TakePart.Com
By Adriana Dunn
Tech conferences typically focus their programming on the search for the next big thing—and often rightfully so. Though yet to turn a profit, Twitter was first introduced at the SXSW Interactive conference in 2007 and has experienced exponential growth rates since—up 1,382 percent from Feb. 2008 to Feb. 2009, according to Nielsen Online.

June 2009
Two Wins for Handheld Human Rights
Digital Democracy Newsletter
Last month many of you helped us by voting for our project Handheld Human Rights in two online Mobile Challenges hosted by NetSquared.org. Your votes sent us into the second round of both challenges and gave us the chance to present at two conferences in May: The UC Berkeley Human Rights Center's Soul of the New Machine and NetSquared's N2Y4.

May 29, 2009
Lessons on innovation from nonprofits
Silicon Valley Mercury News
By Chris O'Brien
At the risk of over-romanticizing what these folks are doing, I believe these social entrepreneurs represent the essence of Silicon Valley in its purest form.

May 28, 2009
FrontlineSMS:Medic and The Extraordinaries Win Big at NetSquared
Change.org
By Nathaniel Whittemore
NetSquared's annual spring conference has become the go-to place to discover innovative social change technology products. Each year, they sponsor a project challenge that gives social tech innovators - usually grouped around some theme - the chance to win cash prizes, mobilize peers, and get great advice.

May 27, 2009
The Other Green Winner at NetSquared Conference: AMIS
GreenSpeak TV
By Pam Strayer
Kudos to Microsoft for its Mobile Challenge awards for nonprofits for awarding two of its awards to green projects. The criteria for its grants is working on issues of the UN Millennial Development Goals, a great set of guiding principles.

March 26, 2009
Want to Help Us Follow Up on Indonesian Biofuels?
By Laura McClure
One of America's oldest and most prestigious investigative journals appeals for reader support for their NetSquared/U.C. Berkeley Human Rights Mobile Challenge entry....

March 23, 2009
Social Entrepreneurship - Change.org: Ushahidi: Watching Global ...
By Nathaniel Whittemore
2008 was a great year for them, as they won NetSquared Year 3 Challenge, received a terrific grant from Humanity United, were honored as Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellows, and generally built a lot of buzz and support. ...

March 19, 2009
NetSqaured Mobile Challenge | Tactical Philanthropy
By Sean Stannard-Stockton
Longtime readers of Tactical Philanthropy know that I've always been a fan of the NetSquared conference. From N2Y1, where I heard about some site called Facebook for the first time and was taught how to launch a blog. ...

March 19, 2009
Worldchanging: Bright Green: NetSquared Challenge: What Will Cell ...
By Julia Levitt
With mobile phones in the hands of 2.2 billion people worldwide, says the NetSquared website, "mobile technology provides every day people with unprecedented computing power and an ability to share information in real-time." ...

March 10, 2009
Mobile Developers Aim to Change the World
ReadWriteWeb - CA,USA
The nonprofit N2Y4 Mobile Challenge from Netsquared is accepting project submissions from mobile developers through this month and will provide seed funding ...

March 5, 2009
A New Funding Opps for Mobile Innovators
KatrinVerclas, MobileActives.org
There is a slew of new challenges (disclosure: I am a judge on some of them) and a few other opportunities for MobileActives.

Press releases from 2009

June 2009

• N2Y4 Winners

April 2009

• N2Y4 Featured Projects

March 2009

• N2Y4 Announcement

Media Highlights from previous conferences

People are talking about NetSquared! You can find some highlights below.

5/28/08
SFGate's Tech Chronicles
And the winner is . . . everyone!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=26859

5/28/08
The Mercury News
Netsquared: Harnessing the power of social media to solve social problems
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/obrien/2008/05/28/netsquared-harnessing-the-power-social-media-to-solve-social-problems/

3/19/08
ReadWriteWeb
NetSquared Mashup Challenge: 120+ Mashups for Social Change
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/netsquared_mashup_challenge_12.php

3/6/08
Chronicle of Philanthropy
$100,000 in Prize Money for Charity "Mashups"
http://philanthropy.com/temp/email.php?id=0i0x61n9dlwjmi8mk028smsa69gi22w4

2/20/08
Tactical Philanthropy
NetSquared N2Y3
http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2008/02/netsquared-n2y3

Media Archives

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Releases about the 2008 event can be found here

Net2 print media

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Net2 online media

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