Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. And, more importantly, Kenyan citizens will have a place where their collective voices can be heard as they push for a safer, more transparent democracy. Disclosure: I’m on the board ).
Tech Soup
MARCH 29, 2017
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. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. So much innovation.
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Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. One of the reflections.
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. Anyone in or outside of Haiti could use the tool via the web or on a mobile phone to make reports with voice, text or video; the reports were then mapped and sources verified.
Tech Soup
DECEMBER 16, 2015
This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. The doll takes a child's words and sends them over the Internet to cloud based voice-recognition software that can create the perfect response. Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. This past year, U.S.
NTEN
JUNE 20, 2011
By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Some messages sent by Epic Change via their 180+ JustCoz participants would get zero response.
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