Social CodeCamp Call to Action with Fiscal Sponsor WhoMentors.com, Inc.-Introduction to Social CodeCamp

*Invite people to view submit stories, enter contest and donate to local causes.
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LqMexfpPo8
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SocialCodeCamp

Enter competition, add short films. Tell us your story here...also add your long movies to one of sponsor pages.

San Francisco Chapter, Films For Action - http://Sf.FilmsForAction.org

The digital divide includes the tech design divide that keeps people who are using assistive technology or who have disabilities from being able to use web sites, software and other tech tools. But making your web site and other online services more accessible isn't just a nice thing to do: it makes a web site more accessible for potential customers, clients and donors, and demonstrates an organization's commitment to usability and accessibility to everyone. In addition, for a designer or programmer, knowing how to make a web site fully accessible makes you more competitive in the job market.

Happy Blog Action Day everyone! In case you haven't heard, Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action. This year's topic is water. I've seen loads of really great #BAD2010 posts today, so for my contribution to this effort, I've decided to share a round-up of web and mobile technology related Blog Action Day posts.

The United Nations Joint Inspection Body recently spoke to web professional in 40 UN agencies to identify what the most common problems are and how to fixed them. The result is an impressive document that can be used by many non-profit organizations to address similar problems in their own organization.

This September 22nd, contribute to the celebrations of the web for OneWebDay! All over the world, people who care about the future of the Web are joining together to organize events and activities in their towns, growing the OWD network from the grassroots up.  The 30-day countdown has already begun leading up to OWD09; learn how you can join the celebrations!

It's Net2 Think Tank time again!  As you probably have heard, NetSquared has three, yep, THREE, open Challenges right now (N2Y4, Change the Web, UCB Human Rights Mobile Challenge).  This has got me thinking about the process of submitting Projects as many people do (check out the Global Project Gallery to see all those submitted to NetSquared Challenges so far

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happyfrog Evolves from Small Amphibian to Mighty Mammal - Say hello to 3rd Whale

A busy year in the pond

Since launching happyfrog.ca just over a year ago, the small band of eco-minded renegades worked hard to help sustainability-focused businesses and organizations gain valuable exposure on the web, and in close conjunction with this effort, help green-minded consumers find these great biz'es and orgs. Over this year, my colleagues and I attended all sorts of trade shows, conferences, meet-ups, presentations and camps to spread the message of sharing eco-smarts with your community. Indeed, we found great joy in seeing the positive impact we've made on green entrepreneurs and shoppers alike.

Evolution to a swimming mammal

Now, change is upon us. happyfrog has made friends with a pod of whales and announces happyfrog.ca has merged with 3rd Whale. This business merger means happyfrog.ca as we all know it will change significantly. Think of it as an evolution from a small amphibian to a giant mammal (and Darwin celebrates!).

The company will go forward as 3rd Whale with the aim of combining the happyfrog directory and social networking platform with 3rd Whale's mobile application (to be released for iPhone on in November, followed by Android and Blackberry versions) to markets down the West coast of North America, and to the world (and beyond! ;-).

Big Thanks

I just wanted to share a link with you from the Fourth Web for
Development Conference (UN-Habitat) that was held in Nairobi at the of
2007. 
(http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=546) so if you are
interested take a look!  On the right-hand side if the page there is a
menu and if you go to "Workshop Summaries and Presentations" you will
be happy at youth!

Looking forward to the show! Last year I tried the Net2 experience through virtual means, which proved as expected much less satisfactory that seeing everyone face to face.

I am now independently consulting full time (since November) with Leland Design, working on projects ranging from violence prevention, to lung health, senior housing and nonprofit management.

My recent technology interest is to discover the application(s) that make basic map rendering of data super easy for nontechnical users. Google is great, and the mashups have been exciting and widespread, but the solutions yet have still proven difficult for the average joe with a data export in their hands to manage.

To the dozens of supporters who have found us here, thank you! To our hardcore advisors and leaders who have come here to vote, thank you also. This process has been an amazing journey for the Amoration/ManorMeta team; as this project has gone underground for the last few months we haven't been out there talking about the detail development work happening behind the scenes at AMO Studio. Thanks for keeping us in the spotlight and helping us to find new partners, supporters and friends from Japan to Israel!