Mash-ups for social change

BLOG SEARCH: TechSoup, an online resource that helps non-profits meet their technology needs, has created the NetSquared project. The project is a place "where savvy technical professionals with a sense of social responsibility can contribute advice, education, and much needed skills." Among the Internet tools NetSquared promotes are map mash-ups. For example, GreenPeace has created map of where it thinks marine reserves should be as part of their year-long "Defending Our Oceans" voyage. For another mash-up, Steve Hargadon, who sells refurbished computers to public schools, has created a map of locations of computer refurbishers and photos of the computers. NetSquared has even created its own mash-up of its case studies of non-profits that are using Web 2.0 tools.