NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. NTEN Member Beth J. Walk Score rates your neighborhood's walkability and maps just about everything of interest near you, from bookstores to bars. Hey, things we like don't need to relate to NPTech when they're this revolutionary.).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

You turn to NTEN Connect for the information that will help you do your job better -- the articles in this very issue prove it -- but also for those brief sanity breaks that let you keep pushing ahead toward realizing your vision of a better world. You'll see a lot more on that from NTEN in 2011. Happy holidays!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

You turn to NTEN Connect for the information that will help you do your job better -- the articles in this very issue prove it -- but also for those brief sanity breaks that let you keep pushing ahead toward realizing your vision of a better world. You'll see a lot more on that from NTEN in 2011. Happy holidays!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2009

"Oh, a link to a map of legal drinking ages around the world , eh? " (And then it took me 5 minutes to find a map of risky drinking patterns. IdealistNews.org could very well become a terrific, and time-saving, central aggregator of nonprofit news and commentary -- but that's up to the community it builds.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

So Perla reached out to the aggregator sites that serve donors and did an incredible thing. Another example is the Hunger Relief Map from the Capitol Area Food Bank in Austin. The problem, in Perla's mind, was that the average donor would still have to spend additional time finding her site to get the information. She offered to share.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The team is also building modules on top of this core platform that will compress data into text messages to send electronic medical records, create real-time maps to visualize health programs, and connect clinics to a revolutionary mobile phone-based diagnostic tool. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. With little lead time, a few Climate Riders pulled together a site that aggregated all the action into one place at Climate Ride Live.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

With this information, you can make decisions on how to consolidate information in other locations, reorganize your site map, or identify links to external sites that may be drawing users away from your site. Check back with your analytics to see where people are dropping off and where they're aggregating. What are they not saying?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Just get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Someone on the 501 Tech Club NY list ( NTEN Affinity Group ) suggested a name change might be needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. score out of 5.0).

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. This map-based interactive data visualization makes it simple to select a neighborhood, and quickly see the neighborhoods income distribution, the real cost of hosing in that ‘hood, and then reveals the gaps. And for good reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

(Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Gilbert commented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. I've been doing this for ten years as part of the annual NTEN Day of Service for the NTC. NTEN has two fantastic events this month!

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. I think that our best hope is to work for incremental successes.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

You shouldn't choose the toolbox for your organization until after a strategy has been defined -- at which point the following should be considered: fish where the fish are , use tools that make sense for your audience , know there is no "one size fits all" plan and map tools directly to your strategy.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

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. There are many great sources on this topic -- many of whom present with and blog for NTEN and TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We lead off with Amy Sample Ward who is the executive director of NTEN , the big membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. She also writes for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and she also has one of the most read personal blogs in NPTech. He got the NTEN Award IN 2011. Amy Sample Ward. Marnie Webb.

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