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Boost Your Voice with LightBox Collaborative’s 2012 Editorial Calendar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As you map out your work plan for the year ahead, we recommend you also augment our list with a review of your organization’s 2012 work plans to identify key areas of focus. Flickr Photo by Yandel. Tailor the Tool. These can be gold mines of content for your communications platforms.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). The team also hopes to incentivize organizations to share knowledge and give beneficiaries a direct voice. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. On July 5 the real fun began.

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Invention, Technology and Social Change: What’s driving you?

Amy Sample Ward

I also think that examining this idea in a place where the 3 areas create a very clear Venn Diagram, like India, invites a wide range of voices to the conversation. Find out more about the conference here. This blog post is an entry in their competition to find the official blogger to travel to and cover the event.

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Crypto Donors Don’t Wear Tinfoil Hats: The 14 differences between Crypto & Traditional Donors

Whole Whale

The truth is that Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, began in 2009 and so too did the genesis crypto culture. Consider how your organization’s narrative may map to these values of giving power and voice to stakeholders that have been traditionally ignored by financial institutions.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. 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. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

Google Earth Outreach from Rebecca Moore: Google’s mapping tools may seem like an obscure tool to use in your work but these aren’t traditional maps: the new generation of mapping technology is fully interactive, enables storytelling, and more. (Did Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

ASU Lodestar Center

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! It was completed and published in November 2009. Click here to download a PDF copy.