I.  What does Cell Alert/FrontlineSMS offer?

Cell Alert/FrontlineSMS empowers people in poor areas by providing alerts on anything they want to track. Whenever our online searches find useful information, we forward alerts alerts through cell phone or email that lets users act in response to humanitarian crises, genocide, economic aid, medical supplies, loans, and agricultural market trends.

II.  Our origins and development

Cell Alertâ„¢ was launched as a non-profit service as a response to difficulties encountered by refugees coming to the Washington D.C. area from many different African countries.

NetSquared recently followed up with the N2Y3 Featured Projects to develop these short case studies, with the goal to expand the knowledgebase of best practices for applying social media in the nonprofit context. We interviewed participants from the N2Y3 Featured Project teams to gain a better understanding of the way they used social media to increase their reach and carry out their missions. We are very happy to bring you their stories!

Today's spotlight: Genocide Intervention Network!

NetSquared recently followed up with the N2Y3 Featured Projects to develop these short case studies, with the goal to expand the knowledgebase of best practices for applying social media in the nonprofit context. We interviewed participants from the N2Y3 Featured Project teams to gain a better understanding of the way they used social media to increase their reach and carry out their missions. We are very happy to bring you their stories!

Today's spotlight: Social Actions!

NetSquared recently followed up with the N2Y3 Featured Projects to develop these short case studies, with the goal to expand the knowledgebase of best practices for applying social media in the nonprofit context. We interviewed participants from the N2Y3 Featured Project teams to gain a better understanding of the way they used social media to increase their reach and carry out their missions. We are very happy to bring you their stories!

Today's spotlight: Open Green Map!

NetSquared recently followed up with the N2Y3 Featured Projects to develop these short case studies, with the goal to expand the knowledgebase of best practices for applying social media in the nonprofit context. We interviewed participants from the N2Y3 Featured Project teams to gain a better understanding of the way they used social media to increase their reach and carry out their missions. We are very happy to bring you their stories!

Today's spotlight: OneWorld!

If you know NetSquared...

(which I assume you do, even if only a little bit, as you're reading our blog), you know that we're big suckers for do-gooders, web mashups, and mapping (a technology that dominated last year's Mashup Challenge). It is because of our admiration for thi

NetSquared recently followed up with the N2Y3 Featured Projects to develop these short case studies, with the goal to expand the knowledgebase of best practices for applying social media in the nonprofit context. We interviewed participants from the N2Y3 Featured Project teams to gain a better understanding of the way they used social media to increase their reach and carry out their missions. We are very happy to bring you their stories!

Today's spotlight: Assetmap Uganda!

NetSquared recently followed up with the N2Y3 Featured Projects to develop these short case studies, with the goal to expand the knowledgebase of best practices for applying social media in the nonprofit context. We interviewed participants from the N2Y3 Featured Project teams to gain a better understanding of the way they used social media to increase their reach and carry out their missions. We are very happy to bring you their stories!

Today's spotlight: Ushahidi!

This is Lena Zúñiga, I'm the new project coordinator for the EDGAR Mashup project.   Ian has done a great job starting up this initiative and after a few months of refining the proposal, we're very excited and very proud to announce that we have started the technical development phase of our EDGAR database Mashup project, supported by the Sunlight Foundation.

Our technical team, formed by Skye Bender-DeMoll and Greg Michelec, is now refining a first version of the API.  We expect to have a functioning demo by April this year. 

I think I first met Peter Deitz at Web of Change, talking about his work as micro-philanthropy consultant, and his idea to mash up the actionable opportunities on all the platforms for social change. That became Social Actions, a platform where you can find things to do: join an event, sign a petition, donate to a cause, give out a loan, volunteer.

Those things you can do come from a variety of sources, like Care2, GlobalGiving, Kiva, Idealist.org, and starting this week, also from NABUUR, the online volunteer network.