Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. I’ll be watching the Open Handset Alliance, and wondering when I can replace my Blackberry with an open phone. {

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. One of the new things Ushahidi was doing was crowdsourcing information.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. But I have a first take.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. Going forward, it will be more important to connect your user’s social addresses with this information, too. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Whether it’s data or dances, silos keep people separated at the party. During his 4.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

2010 is the first year that the NMC has released a museum-specific report, but previous reports have been informed by museum professionals (as well as other educational technologists). From my perspective, the Horizon Report's value is in its quick technology descriptions and links, not its predictive power. Happy reading!

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