Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When wildfires devastated the area around San Diego in October, 2007, citizen journalists used e-mail, text messages, and social media sites to collect and disseminate real-time information about the location of the fires, evacuation efforts, meeting places and emergency supplies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. Time suck: Social networks are a time suck. It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

I’m someone who has, since day one, tried my damnedest (and succeeded 96% of the time) to only say by email, or put up, what I would say in a room full of people. Maybe it’s time to go back to being a curmudgeon. { 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 tool to jump in.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

I don’t get paid to blog, so I don’t really want to spend my time doing that. These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). I’m getting tired of wasting more time in front of my computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008. I have a survey that allows me to understand the composition of the group in aggregate as well as the maturity of practice levels for each individual participant according to “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.”

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See3

OCTOBER 21, 2008

It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. From their website: On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and machinery to vote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Second C: Collaboration. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

When a learner accumulates a sufficient balance of CE credits over a certain span of time, she achieves maintenance of certification. If you are just building your first set of online courses and implementing your first (traditional) LMS, it’s probably not the time to develop a 12-tiered system of subscription packages.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. I don't care how many platforms you're active in--if they are not connected to each other, people will not aggregate the experiences. They all reported having a great time at the museum.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

We thought it'd be a good time check in with the new CEO of the project, Brian Vahaly, to see how it's going. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. What Is Connect2Compete ? How the Project Got Going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. I remember a great post from several months ago or I want to find the half-dozen best posts on a particular topic and it is hard to do. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. It was a tremendous effort by the team and all the volunteers who donated time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation. You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? This is work in progress. What data matters most? You're almost there.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But the way we think about and turn to social media in a time of disaster is changing. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I am willing to bet just about anyone that has worked in the nonprofit sector for a notable amount of time has benefited from the work of Idealist.org. Every time I come back to their site, I find something new. By September 2008, after years of steady growth, these little drops were covering 70% of our budget.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Humaninet can help agencies map critical locations in near-real-time, such as shelter points or resource depots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf There is a difference between seasonal agricultural work and a full time job with benefits. link] [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

re at the unproven starting point, the opportunity is promising, companies wanting to extend their online presence should consider the distributed web (OpenSocial) into their 2008 web strategy planning. OpenSocial will let me aggregate all of my friend data across networks to a data store, and I can then get a better idea of what???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. This post traces the evolution of social networking sites from the 80's to present time, although missing a few major early players. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Wonder if smashups are eligible?) NTC will take place in New Orleans March 19-21.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Humaninet can help agencies map critical locations in near-real-time, such as shelter points or resource depots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I interviewed Ben Matthews who was part of the organizational group that dreamed up the Twestival concept in London in September 2008. Says Ben, " The idea was to run a festival that got people who followed each other on Twitter to meet up in real life, but also come together to raise money for a good cause at the same time."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter, a micro-blogging site makes it easy to create short posts known as tweets from anywhere, using almost any kind of wireless device – perfect for users with little time, but have something to say. As an aggregator of postings based on followers and search terms, Twitter has become an Internet magnet. Good article, Allyson.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The report was released on December 8, 2008 (with an interim report published earlier this year in July). I used to think it was better NOT to identify the organization, and instead to spend a lot of time and effort making it seem like the letter from the constituent had no connection to an organization at all. So thanks, guys!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Looking back over the past year, I'm proud my thinking and writing about this over the past year: The ROI of Social Media published in NTEN January 2008 Newsletter.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Her thoughts on Apple’s ban on donations in iPhone apps recently appeared in The New York Times. The Right Donor Data Transfer There is a lot of time and attention on what goes into getting someone to make an online gift. The aggregator itself could be an app for the Apple platform. Am I missing anything here?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ? He then set out aggregating and displaying this data in a unique fashion, "eschewing details in favor of high-level overviews and visualizations." Data is also getting stored in new places.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. For the first time in U.S. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. Tools you can Use.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. Its really affordable when you consider the savings in time. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A, and like Kishshana said a minute ago, we’d love to hear from you. And I don’t know how she has time for all this stuff. Steven: All the time. My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. So use the chat, the Q&A.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard. There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources. So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard Is this referring to activation?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

It happened at 7:45 in the morning, and I know that many of you were not there, let alone awake, at that time. There are college students who cannot make it through the day without checking Facebook multiple times. And museums have really good content--content related to the core interests of niche groups who aggregate online.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

[link] Bit.ly: A URL shortener that tracks information such as number of clicks, traffic sources, and at what time the clicks occur. link] Scoopler: Aggregator that organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens via blogs and major social networks. January 27, 2010 | Denver SEO Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

I first saw Scratch a few years ago, when I had friends working at the Media Lab, and at the time it seemed like a neat way for kids who were unfamiliar with programming to jump in and start designing their own interactive stories and games. Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). I'm one of them.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. BAM, time to tell the story. You see something like that and ask "Hey!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

One of the challenges, of course, is integrating social media strategy with overall communications planning as well as Internet strategy without having the time in the workshop to drill down into those other topics. Now, restate your objective so it is “SMART” – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based?

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