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Follow the Net2 Mashup Challenge Featured Projects' Development Online

It's been a little over 2 months since the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) where the 21 NetSquared Mashup Challenge Featured Projects presented their ideas.  The Conference may have ended, but their work has not. 

I've created a list below of the 21 Projects' web sites, blog feeds, Twitter feeds, news feeds and Facebook groups so that you can follow their work as it progresses. (Note: Many of the proejcts also have e-newletters or mailing lists that you can join through their sites).  If I've missed any feeds or sites, please let me know in the comments and I'll add them to the list.

If you are interested in helping a project out, you can contact them directly, or contact Billy Bicket at bbicket AT compumentor DOT org about joining the NetSquared Innovator Support Network.

A Mashup of 29+ Social Action Platforms -- Social Actions
* Third Place Winner

Project site: http://mashup.socialactions.com/
Supporting org site: http://www.socialactions.com
Blog: http://blog.socialactions.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/socialactions
Social Actions on Facebook

The Power of the Blogosphere, or Maybe It's Just Dear Abby

Last week I posted a desperate plea to "Dear Abby" to help us find a contact at the iTunes Music Store who could help us with the NetSquared podcast feed--no matter how many things I had tried, for three months it had been rejected.

Low and behold, I checked the iTunes Music Store today, and it was listed in the Tech News section.

Wow.

Dear Abby: Apple Rejects Net2 Podcast Feed

DEAR ABBY: First, let me offer you a piece of advice.  If you are planning to submit your nonprofit or NGO's podcast feed to the iTunes Music Store, do not submit it before you post at least one program.  I made that mistake last August when I switched the NetSquared Podcast over from Odeo to Libsyn, and Apple rejected my feed.  In spite of multiple attempts since then to resubmit it, and multiple viewings of the message, "The feed has already been submitted," it is not listed.

Need to Read in the Net2 Feed

As some of you know, we have a Net2 News Aggregator on the site that you can browse for Net2-related stories.

Here are links to some recently tagged sites and stories:

Winecamp France
.  Oui Oui!  September 22-24, 2006 regular barcampers + nonprofit web activists will meet up in Burgundy to discuss and create ways that nonprofits can use the social web for social change.

In Google Answers, the question is asked:
What is the general percentage of nonprofit organizations with 10 or more employees that invest in new enterprise or CRM software on a yearly basis?  The answerer provided lots of statistics, but few were more recent than 2003.  Anyone have more recent stats to share?

Confessions of a Nonprofit IT Director blog talks about "Nonprofit 2.0" in his organization:

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