Before starting our business together, both David and I worked for many years in the non-profit sector. And in addition to our interest in social change, I'm also a bit of a map geek. So we were happy to help when Ashoka expressed interest in using our DIY map for their redesigned regional pages. Ashoka is a global association of social entrepreneurs — businesses that take sustainable social change as part of their mission.

DIY map is a configurable, interactive map in Flash that provides a basic geographic interface to your data or webpages. I started it as a skunkworks project at Human Rights Watch years ago, but have since extended it and released it publicly. It's simpler, easier to use and style than a lot of the big webmapping services. Sites have used it to map vendors, photos, podcasts, web traffic, and more.

But don't take my word for it. It's free to download and try out for yourself.