NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2012

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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

" World Bank’s Mapping for Results launched – Check out this deployment of the Ushahidi platform for digital storytelling and reporting: "This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One "One of the things I love about working at Google is that you can come up with an idea one day and the next day start getting to work to make it a reality. ."

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." " Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings | Official Google Blog – "Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My phone launched in May 2011 with Android 2.2 was announced in July 2011. I love Google Maps. I love how integrated Google services are (duh). I bought it in late August. An update to Gingerbread 2.3 It never happened. There’s still a lot I do love…just not on the whole. I love widgets. But the bugs.

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NTEN

MARCH 28, 2011

Check out notes taken by session attendees throughout the conference using Google Docs , too!

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

One of the app’s best features, Project FishMap, which allows users to find nearby restaurants and businesses serving sustainable seafood and contribute new establishments to a growing database, was added in an early 2011 update. Seafood Watch - Google Play. ArtClix - Google Play. Louis - Google Play. Historic St.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Map out on paper (or use OmniGraffle or Visio like I did) how each of your audiences move through your organization, from first contact to the desired action they should take. Have you ever mapped out data flow on paper like Judi?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2013

His Google account was taken over and deleted. In 2011, the group LulzSec hacked into PBS's website and posted an image of the spooky Nyan Cat as retaliation against the network's broadcast of a WikiLeaks documentary. It was also still accessible through Google search for a few weeks. The Return of the Living Hackers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. Another great example of what Voluntweeters can do is the case of Red Cross voluntweeters responding to the more recent February 2011 Chicago blizzard. For others it was not so clear.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Microsoft has run the campaign since 2011, but it seems to have deeper resonance this year. The New York Times Outs Google+. It’s Mostly for Google. The story maintains that even though Google+ is a distant social media competitor to Facebook and its users are much less active, it is very valuable to Google.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. " Artist Jenny Odell used digital cutouts from Google Maps to create some striking images. Note: You probably need Google Chrome to watch it.). "Farmville is so huge!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

Her team members use both a Google spreadsheet, Google Cal and Jira to manage it all. Ever since I’ve been recommending it and teaching it to nonprofits after being inspired by Holly Minch’s model in 2011. (I These all go on a google calendar – the theme and title. My answer: Yes!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

After all, it wasn't all puppy dogs , posed Stormtrooper action figures , and Google Street View shenanigans. While Facebook's new Insights may have mitigated the need to use Google Analytics with your Fan page , it's still cool that you can. You'll see a lot more on that from NTEN in 2011. Happy holidays!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

After all, it wasn't all puppy dogs , posed Stormtrooper action figures , and Google Street View shenanigans. While Facebook's new Insights may have mitigated the need to use Google Analytics with your Fan page , it's still cool that you can. You'll see a lot more on that from NTEN in 2011. Happy holidays!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This new free online data visualization and mapping tool demonstrates the value of applying technology to philanthropy, in this case, creating a place to find out how and where foundations are supporting U.S. Foundation Center's new Foundation Funding for U.S. To quote an overly used advertising tag line: know the gaps.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2011

Fast forward to 2011. Google+ (G+ for those in the know) is like the Facebook confusion of ole but on steroids. Most of us already have a relationship with Google, be it as casual as our search engine or as intimate as our personal email/calendar provider. The same way we drafted the Facebook map and the Twitter map.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

Google Hangouts, Watchitoo, and Sliderocket. linked with other Google tools down the road (both endeavors are in. Connection points like Google Hangouts allow your circle to share what they are. cloud-based tools that facilitate group process around mapping, making. Pacific time, we will be. early beta). Collaboration.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

In a similar finding, the Pew Research Center reported in January 2011 that among the general public the Internet has now surpassed newspapers as a primary source of news and is steadily closing the gap with television. This digital experience is now being carried around in millions of pockets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. We also discussed that it would be useful to have a map or fuller array of case studies that illustrate how the data might be used for different interventions. Do you need your monitoring tool to integrate with other tools like Salesforce, Google Analytics, etc.? Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

We tweet, checkin, google, blog, instagram, post status updates, yelp and a host of other things from our handheld devices. Jorge Luis Borges points out that a 1:1 scale map is useless. As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history. But what’s the point? Our Collective Stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

From another perspective, there’s the side of our data that translates into APIs, maps, and info graphics. We will have maps telling the stories of our impact for us (for examples of this already in use, check out google earth’s nonprofit stories). Community Mapping and Planning. Show how much money is being raised!

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist , says: The ability to take data — to be able to understand it, to process it, to. Innovative visualization, such as the Mapping for Results Initiative , was highlighted as a powerful tool for civil society organizations and citizens. inclusion issues that arise with its disclosure.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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