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The folks at Sustainable Table, the creators of the Eat Well Guide and the Green Fork Blog, have put out a new book, Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement.

 The printed book will debut at Slow Food Nation this weekend in San Francisco, but you can download it for free from the Eat Well Guide site now.

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Hi everyone

Please feel free to come by at BeerCamp Copenhagen 2008: http://beercamp.pbwiki.com/

Regards,

Allan

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.

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The next Net Tuesday San Francisco on September 9th will feature Nikki Serapio, the Director of Community Marketing for Involver. Involver facilitates companies and organizations building, launching, promoting, managing and monitoring video campaigns on social networks.

Chirag Shah, Special Projects Manager at Kiva.org, will also be on hand to talk about Kiva's experience using Involver.

If you don't live in the Bay Area, an audio recording of the speakers will be available on the NetSquared Podcast (thanks to David Collin) and a video will be posted on the NetSquared Blip TV Channel (thanks to Ross Chapman) after the event.

If you do live in the Bay Area, RSVP on Meetup, Facebook or Upcoming!

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Just a quick reminder to email the URL of your Net2ThinkTank post to me at bbravo@techsoup.org by tomorrow, August 27th, at 5 PM PT ( I extended the deadline from Noon).

This month's Net2ThinkTank question is:

How Can Nonprofits Use Flickr? 

You can see the original post with further directions for how to participate at, Join the Net2ThinkTank: How Can Nonprofits Use Flickr?

Two of the 21 Net Tuesdays are meeting this week on Tuesday, August 26:

Net Tuesday Vancouver, BC
Topic: How Drupal Can Help You Save the World!

Net Tuesday Portland, OR
Topic: An Analysis of Online Messaging, Fundraising and Advocacy Metrics for Nonprofit Organizations

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Just a heads up that NetSquared.org will be down tomorrow, Tuesday, August 26th from 7-8 AM PT for maintenance.

Photo Credit: Men at Work by Luca Masters.

Sending out yet another email to your members can be painful sometimes when you really want to say the same thing you've already tried to tell them countless times. We've all been there, either on the sending or receiving end of those messages. But, making something fun that delivers the message means you get to make something new and interesting, your members get to enjoy what you've created and the message is in there without any more of the boring blah blah blah. But, how do you do that?

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Interpublic's Emerging Media Lab and SocialVibe have a patented micro payment system that offers incentives (e.g. charitable donations to favored causes like World Wildlife Fund and Stand Up to Cancer) "to the members of social networks who promote their brands on their personal pages". The public beta began in May 2008. Can you DIGG it?

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A slightly different post and video this time, reporting back on a fascinating meeting last week to brainstorm some ideas improve SYFAB's funding service using web based tools. It is amazing what you can come up with in a couple of hours when you get a few heads together. In William Hoyle from Charity Technology Trust, John Mell of Web 2.0 consultancy Trovus, and Simon Berry from Ruralnet there was plenty of experience of nonprofits working with the Internet.

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The number of people blogging is still growing (just check Technorati for numbers), but the number of organizations starting blogs is rising, too. After enough staff members and volunteers touted the usefulness of blogs for conversation, news, and general transparency, it seems organizations are looking to give blogs a chance. Organizations of all sizes and sectors are utilizing this community building tool. Here are some examples of how far and wide blogs are being used to reach out to the community.

ARK Adventure

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A chat with Nate Ritter (who is awesome) about Twitter, why the government needs to clean up their data, and Giving Anonymously.

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WiserEarth (World Index of Social and Environmental Responsibility) was a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference (N2Y2).

They have recently opened up membership to their directory and networking platform to include, "business or government that are creating lasting change in the environmental and social justice fields."

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Creating Social Change is a project of Global Partnerships for Activism & cross-cultural Training. The purpose of this blog will be to share our knowledge, encounters and interests about the process of creating social change. Articles should be useful to the end user and assist them in learning more about running their own projects.

What can I do with Creating Social Change?

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As we have said in previous post the power of the video have no limits. Just think about the images that we saw coming from the Beijing Olympics ceremony, or the images we saw coming from the quick war between Russia and Georgia.  But there are other important issues that go uncovered. There are heart-breaking stories that go unheard. What news networks tend to cover are the political side of the issues, but hardly the human side. The reason being that they think they are not news worthy.

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Staying on top of the best times to email newsletters is imperative in the world of nonprofit 2.0. Also important is knowing which Twitter apps work best for you, as is keeping up with the countless other dos and don'ts of Internet etiquette. Getting overwhelmed by this ever-changing set of rules and compilations of best practices, however, is counterproductive when it makes one forgetful of the importance of maintaining human contact.

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The Anuleaf adhesive device may help reduce pain associated with hemorrhoids, anal fissures and anal surgery. The Anuleaf device was designed with active people in mind.

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