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Here are the latest case studies added to NetSquared in Action:
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KPFA's War Comes Home Project: Radio Journalism Goes 2.0 - warcomeshome.org


KPFA Radio 94.1 FM

http://warcomeshome.org

Berkeley, CA

More than 1.6 million Americans have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of August 1, 2007, 67,000 of them had been killed or wounded. In addition, more than 250,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans had been treated at...

ATSTAR - helping teachers use tech for kids with disabilities


Knowbility

www.atstar.org

Texas, Colorado, Montana

Assistive technology (AT) can be a lifeline for students with disabilities. As more students with learning differences, physical impairments, and cognitive and emotional disorders are educated in general education classrooms, teachers are challenged to meet the needs of those students. Kids wit...

Image Annotation Notebook


University of Art & Design Helsinki, Media Lab

http://imanote.uiah.fi

Finland

ImaNote - (Image and Map Annotation Notebook) is a multi-user tool for viewing, zooming, and annotating arbitrary-sized images using a web browser. Multiple users can display a high-resolution image or a collection of images online, being able to almost instantly see and edit eac...

How Do You Use Social Networks to Build One?


Cauzoo

http://www.cauzoo.com

Los Angeles

If you're building a social network, mailing list, or other social tool, how do you break through a crowded market? With MySpace, Facebook, and a host of new niche social sites popping up, how can you beat the compet...

Board Collaboration for PAPIE


Palo Alto Partners in Education

http://pieboard.nexo.com

Palo Alto

Palo Alto Partners in Education (PAPIE) is a primarily board-driven organization with only 2 staff and a budget around $2+ million. We raise private funds to supplement public funds for all the public schools in our school district.

Challenge:

We needed a tool to ensure communicatio...

FreePledge


FreePledge, Inc

www.freepledge.com

Silicon Valley, California

FreePledge is a young for-profit social venture that aims to help nonprofits tap into the Internet and technologies.
FreePledge has leveraged the power of growing e-commerce market to empower nonprofit organizations.

Users go through FreePledge for their online shopping, they pay ex...

Upper Kirby citizen participation platform


Gov2u

http://www.upperkirby.org

UpperKirby, Houston

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Gov2Demoss is an open source, informative and collaborative eParticipation platform.It provides an efficient channel for institutions and organizations to keep...

The Cedar Cultural Center


The Cedar Cultural Center

http://www.thecedar.org

Minneapolis, MN

The Cedar Cultural Center is a nonprofit music venue in Minneapolis, MN. August 23, 2006 The Cedar launched a new web site. The site was built in collaboration with Cruiskeen Consulting LLC

Th...

Neighbours in the Global Village


NABUUR.com

www.nabuur.com

Amersfoort, Netherlands

www.nabuur.com is a new concept in people-to-people global citizenship. The world is a global village and Nabuur facilitates contact among the neighbours.Nabuur builds virtual neighbourhoods around local communities in developing countries, to assist the latter to deal with their problems in th...

Wireless Networking in the Developing World


http://www.wndw.net/

The web

The massive popularity of wireless networking has caused equipment costs to continually plummet, while equipment capabilities continue to increase. By applying this technology in areas that are badly in need of critical communications infrastructure, more people can be brought online than ever ...

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