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A Consumer's Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools from Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

View MacBookPro Travelogue in a larger map This map show the route that a new MacBook Pro made from a factory in China to Arizona. Colleague Alan Levine customized a google map. What's even better is that the software, google maps is free. Tags: maps nptech nptech tools visual thinking.

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Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Twitter crowdsourced China earthquake in realtime

AFP Blog

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Twitter crowdsourced China earthquake in realtime: "While the mainstream media scrambled to put up their “breaking news” headlines Robert Scoble alias Scobleizer, was early to tweet the news. Quickly there were live radio interviews, pictures, google maps, videos all being sent in real-time, says VentureBeat.".

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Things We Like (October 2010)

NTEN

China, India, and most of Europe combined -- but another thing entirely to show it. XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. " Artist Jenny Odell used digital cutouts from Google Maps to create some striking images.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can’t use this tactic in China, for example, where Facebook (and Twitter, among other social media channels) is blocked. You can use a simple online survey tool like Google Drive or SurveyMonkey to collect information about your audience. Survey Your Tribe. After all, people love to read about themselves. No Donuts Required.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. • Mapping • Cloud computing. Speaking of maps, the Oxford Internet Institute has used Internet traffic data from Alexa to figure each country’s most popular websites. Google dominates most of North America, Europe, south Asia and the south Pacific. All Things D.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China. Google Docs , Google Groups , and Google Maps are also very well-known and widely used. It's the largest country in South America and it has the fastest growing economy in the region.

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How to Visualize Information and Help Change the World

Tech Soup

" For example, World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign in China to encourage people to drive less. Don't rely on maps, charts, or graphs because that's what you're familiar with; instead, use the best medium or format or organizing principle to express the idea best. Put in your zip code and get a map.

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