Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. The application is currently in a closed beta, and I was lucky enough to get access to start playing around with it. The first question I asked on Qriously was: “What influences your charitable giving?&#

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The team also hopes to incentivize organizations to share knowledge and give beneficiaries a direct voice. I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time.

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Interview San Diego Map Mashup 123

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Someone should give Bob Dylan's publicist a raise. He or she has created one of the most innovative, enjoyable mashups out of a cultural icon. What's a mashup? speak, it's a web application that combines data from more than one source to create a new tool. Guy: That must be why his lips are so soft.

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Mashup Marketing New York City Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. Give points/badges to people for specific types of check-in’s (e.g. If I were an organization like the American Heart Association I could come up with a way to give points to people for checking into locations that were “heart healthy”).

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YouTube Badge Museum Mashup 95

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. Facebook has lots of applications, it’s true: whether they are specifically targeted at “green&# efforts (like the lil green patch app) or not (like Causes ). Good question.

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Green Mashup Aggregator Org 102

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US. Lexus: Creating an API (Application Programming Interface). Fosters innovation.

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