NetSquared teaming up with Sun Microsystems to produce global Hack Days. First stop, San Paolo, Brazil on October 1, 2008. Next up, China! Register: Collaborate for Change.
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Think Global, Map Social! Interview with Wendy Brawer and Thomas Turnbull of Opengreenmap.org
Also, please take a moment to appreciate how happy Wendy and the Green Map team looks in this picture. Looks like a real positive energy vibe zone. 
I talk to Wendy Brawer and Thomas Turnbull about the origins of Green Map System (greenmap.org) and what they to accomplish when they launch the Open Green Map (opengreenmap.org) in the coming months.
ILoveMountains Maps Their Activist Meme
I'm at this morning's ilovemountains talk, which I've awaited ever since blogging about it as a brilliant online campaign. They just released a new map feature showing where and how their online campaign has spread.
Interesting Tidbits:
- Willie Nelson agreed to give them rights to use "Blowin in the Wind" after they passed a request to his bodyguard.
- They've superimposed the Transamerica building and the Golden Gate Bridge next to some of the removed mountaintops to show the scale of devastation.
Twitter's Impact on the NetSquared Contest - $5 Well Spent
I thought that some of you might like to know what I did to get the word out about voting for the Your Mapper project. Here are some details, focusing on Twitter.
WiserEarth Adds Mapping
Last week, WiserEarth, a N2Y2 Featured Project, posted on their blog that they will be rolling out a new feature:
GIS Proposal Roundup and General Thoughts
Hi, everyone; my name is JC, and this is my first community blog post. I’m one of the authors of the HungerMaps proposal. I’m also a GIS enthusiast, so I wanted to bring your attention to the great GIS projects that have been submitted to this contest.
Maps 2.0 – Geospatial Tools for Nonprofits and Humanitarian Relief
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Maps 2.0, a collaboration already under way, will launch the first online resource for nonprofit and humanitarian organizations to share best practices in geographic information systems (GIS) and digital mapping tools.
Technology Vision:
A revolution in Web-delivered digital maps and map-based analysis is under way and will change the way nonprofits solve social, environmental, and humanitarian problems. It is vital that nonprofit and humanitarian teams leverage these proven and powerful technologies.
HungerMaps
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
35.1 mil Americans face hunger and food insecurity. HungerMaps fuses new visualization and collaborative technology with the wisdom of advocates, transforming local data into a national portrait of needs and resources as the basis for direct action.
OpenStreetMap
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
OpenStreetMap does for maps what Wikipedia does for Encyclopedias.
Case studies map updated
I've just updated the Net Squared case studies map on CommunityWalk and there are many more case studies of groups in Africa now! It's exciting to see where so many innovative nonprofits are located on a dynamic Google Map. I hope you'll check it out in case opportunity arises to refer to in place-based conversations about Net Squared.
Using Community Walk to Visualize Our Case Studies
The Net Squared in Action section of this site is an inspiring set of profiles written about non-profit inovators and their work with new web tools. One of those case studies is a mapping tool called Community Walk, a tool that uses Google Maps to alow users to create their own maps of any community of interest or other set of geographic locations. I thought it would only make sense to use Community Walk in some way regarding the list of groups profiled in the Net Squared case studies.
