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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. 28998-researchers-reveal-chicken-came-first- egg. link] 9546.

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Big Data, Philanthropy, and Health at SOCAP13

Tech Soup

MapLight is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that uses data to show money's influence on politics. The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. And for good reason.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. She is using the virtual media capabilities in Second Life , among others, to navigate her continued research. " Research on virtual worlds used for education, libraries, and museums continues to expand. The Rise of Virtual Libraries.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Researcher have found support for the 1:9:90 rule in many different contexts. 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.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Data is the new black. And for good reason.

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Data and Story Telling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Data is the new black. And for good reason.

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