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: OpenCongress.org!

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: Healthy City Project!

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: The Extraordinaries!

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: Metavid!

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: Freecycle!

Ushahidi, a N2Y3 Mashup Challenge winner, proves that sometimes unrest and urgency, not funding, can be enough to get a project off the ground.  Ushahidi means 'testimony' in Swahili, but as a web tool it enables citizens to use mobile phones, emails or web forms to report and map crisis information. 

David and I are in San Jose at the NetSquared conference, where we’re sharing OpenCongress and some ideas for its future with a great group of people interested in using the Web for social change. In the past couple of days we’ve seen a lot of amazing new projects that are harnessing the Web and its democratizing potential to create positive changes and have a beneficial impact on peoples lives around the world. It’s been inspiring...Read more: http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/512-20-New-Web-Projects-to-Cha...

This is Richard Landry, reporting live from the NetSquared Conference. I am covering the session entitled “Mashups, Copyright, and Commons” led by Mike Linksvayer from Creative Commons.

Live blogging is a practice of careful listening, and I have a long way to go in that area! So if you see something that I misunderstood or misreported, please post a comment/correction.

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There were a lot of legal issues and terms raised in Mike’s presentation, but he preceded them by this disclaimer: “I am not a lawyer.”

A moment of mashup scepticism from the old skool activist side of my brain: The Unbearable Lightness of Mashups.
But I haven't read through the N2Y3 Mashup Challenge entries yet and I know i'm going to be knocked out by their inventiveness and impact. Keep it real.
Dan

Hello, world!

I just learned about the Mashup Challenge a couple days ago but already have a dozen ideas that I have to narrow down to one, well-presented execution. Keep your eye out for me, folks, because The Idea will be posted soon.