NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. 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. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

We had just finished perusing an excellent exhibit, “Places and Spaces,” pouring over a complex map of 1.3 We looked at the museum map on the wall. There’s the “I can’t read the map” problem. When the aggregate names are abstract, it’s hard to know what to expect. Something active. It had considerably fewer than 1.3

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Forum One

MARCH 15, 2010

Develop a focused pilot that maps projects and activities at a sub-national level, for one country, using open standards. Provide examples to help persuade decision-makers at donor organizations and elsewhere to release data. This could be shared as a possible template to be used by other donors at the upcoming IATI conference.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 14, 2022

That’s why we’ve put together tips on getting started and provided a helpful free template and tutorial to help guide you. Engagements scores should start with a model using these 3 easy steps: Choose Activities. A model is basically what you are going to count (activities) and how much you are going to count (weights).

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. 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. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

Tools 59

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

plots your professional or personal life, interests, activities, and moods on Twitter. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users. plots your professional or personal life, interests, activities, and moods on Twitter. I went looking for stop gaps from Brian Solis's awesome list. Twitt(url)y.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, This would have to be done with some social networking analysis software that maps twitter accounts to donors and displays results. plots your professional or personal life, interests, activities, and moods on Twitter. Photo by NimagesDR. a question asked by the Give and Take blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Today, I came across an interesting post from John Bell of Digital Influence Mapping Project blog has an interesting idea , nonprofitwidget.org: Non-profits need to engage their brand ambassadors now. A directory of developers with rating systems would help nonprofits connect with folks to build the widgets.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

At Forum One, this kind of list illustrates the core concept of an internet strategy as distinct from a web site strategy -- not just how to design or build a smart web site, but how to use the entirety of the internet in a very powerful way to help achieve your mission. See the Darfur scores for example.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Between the millions of Text HAITI retweets, several hundred people reached out to us online to ask for help or to tell us about specific needs within Port-au-Prince. . And on Facebook we saw posts like this on our wall: "There are 100 senior citizens on a hill in Jacmel who haven't been helped. Please bring them water."

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Disaster Haiti Los Angeles Social Media 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

To help, the Communications Network recently published a guide to help foundations and nonprofits develop plans to evaluate their communications. The guide is an excellent road map for designing and planning an evaluation of your overall communications plan.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

By civic infrastructure we mean online services which: -help people and government understand and address important social problems; -will be a platform to support or catalyze the innovative work of others to address these problems; -will provide benefits very broadly ? Below I outline Project #1 - the "Global Development Commons".

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

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. How do you invite people back, and how do you help them collect and aggregate their experiences with you in a meaningful way? They are missing a string. Let me explain.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Companies like MaxMind and IP2Location update their databases regularly so you don’t need to figure out the mapping of IPs. Metricly aggregates your data across the Web, allowing you to compare and combine your metrics in one place, and making it easier for you to stay on top of your business.

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API Social Media San Francisco Integration 84

Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2019

But learning how to master gift capacity will help your team draw up accurate, thoughtful proposals. Prospect research takes a lot of time, but software that aggregates donor wealth and affinity information will free up your time for in-depth research. Giving is a social activity and donors come together around causes they care about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." I wonder if there are levels of responsibility - similar to the activism ladders of engagement. (1) (Dave points to a couple of resources defining critical friends - here , here and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

   They need everyone's help to get the word out on Twitter and the effort will only work if a lots of people are using the system. EP+your state if you have a serious problem and need help from the Election Protection coalition; ex., Allison Fine just twittered me that Twitter Vote Report is now live.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

(This post was based on a post developed by Rob Paterson three weeks ago, as we seek to design a pilot project in support of an important multi-constituent project Rob is helping to guide. To help Americans take back their power to control their lives and their communities. . To help make the shift, we have to return to a personal POV.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. A Few NpTech Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

I guess our checklist would be a lot like the barriers to second wave adoption blogged about elsewhere : Understand the activities and goals of the organization. apps can help perform activities and meet organizational goals. does aid help developing countries???? apps to a community centre for Bangladeshi women.

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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. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. Also announced 2.0 Commentary here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. You’re increasing your visibility in the right areas and trying to stick in the minds of others through active interaction on many different levels.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

This is part two of TechSoup staff recommendations for mobile apps beyond the usual suspects : Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Pandora, iTunes, and Google Play. has a great weather map. The app also has a voice-activated search. Circa – is the news aggregation app I use. Find part one here.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

This year, we will complete the development of the first two technologies—the recording mechanism and the collaborative mapping tools. We have to see how this mechanism will help create a meaningful social experience. When can people do it themselves and when do they need help?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

It's only when all those little chunks are aggregated that they turn into Big Data; then the software called analytics can scour it for patterns. Data Mapping and Visualization. Microsoft enables charities to use Bing Maps free of charge. Twitter Analytics is a similar tool for crunching data on your Twitter activity.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

With so many people, it was a challenge to make this Webinar interactive, but there was a lot of discussion in the chat and some online activities. One important skill of the curator is to provide context, so I started with sharing my lens on this topic. Evolution of the Web Infographic (hat tip Dirk Slater - click for Source).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it It looked a little more comprehensive then just asking people to tag and then trying to aggregate (we also looked at other tools like CrowdVine which was very comparable, almost a coin flip).

Social Media 81

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. Brian talks about how those of us active in the real-time Web experience an evaporation of attention span and our ability to digest and respond to everything that moves us. Inspiration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Each Friday in December, we asked people to donate the cost of a package of frozen peas to help fight breast cancer. You can't be knee-deep in social media activism without it. Adding fundraising to social media campaigns is another key focus area for nonprofits.

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Social Media Media Cancer Social 62

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2011

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! But, I can definitely say that my experiences in Korea helped me to be a better person.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

Especially as mobile penetrates more of the market (and more children have their own phones), there are opportunities to actually improve the social visit by helping people stay in touch, share their experiences, and not feel constant pressure to stick together. A recommendation application that helps groups create relative profiles.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

And of course, the campaigns themselves are using network centric tools to activate a grass roots base. and aggregates them. Twemes also aggregates Twitter posts (you direct it with a pound sign: #votereport). Mapping – Electronic mapping is truly a community phenomenon. But of course mapping has gone public.

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