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Scanning for Good: 5 Reasons QR Codes Are a Safe Option for Nonprofits

NetWits

14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. In addition to web URLs, QR codes can contain SMS messages, plain text, contact info, event invites, Google Maps locations, YouTube videos, or social content. They are everywhere – and people are scanning them!

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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Can Social Network Analysis Help You Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Great reads from around the web on February 11th

Amy Sample Ward

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam "Oxfam is responding to the biggest earthquake for 200 years in Haiti. "You've got data.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map.

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Advancing Social Media Measurement for Philanthropic Outcomes #sm_re

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Understanding and mapping your network is one of the indicators in my “Crawl Walk Run Fly” maturity of practice model and looks something like this: Click to see larger image. Once participants do a low tech drawing, we move to explore some of the online mapping and SNA tools to visualize online networks. Radio Bilingue.

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr.

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