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Twitter Voter Report Wiki

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It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. Alison Fine just gave us a head’s up about a cool project she developed with her colleague Nancy Scola to help ensure a fair and safe election for all U.S.

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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

Be as we have seen in events around the world, the revolution will be tweeted, photographed, mapped and posted to our status. Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you. “The revolution will not be televised.”

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Designing Programs to Build Community: Case Study with Charity Technology Trust

Amy Sample Ward

Ideally, the conversation with map the various services to the segments or groups who already/could benefit. In CTX’s eyes it is the engagement, aggregation, or the weaving of people and ideas, questions and answers. This conversation should naturally define segments or groups, as well as the attributes that define those members.

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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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Can Social Network Analysis Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Collaborative Paper: What to do in the nonprofit sector to offset the economic crash.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Foundation Center Focus on the Financial Crisis The map image above is an interactive map that displays the distribution of the most recent support by U.S. It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Drill down to see the details.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The Second C: Collaboration.