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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. The power of blogs is the real-time documentation. Something that can really help the climate change movement is documentation, shared between campaigns, organizations, and coalitions, about 1.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As far back as the 1880s, scientists have led “citizen science” projects in which amateurs are invited to participate in formal scientific research by volunteering to count birds, measure soil quality, or document non-native plant species. Wiki users are often collaborators. Contribution, collaboration, co-creation, hosted.

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Noodling Around Change Management and Social Media Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did a mashup with social media framing. The typewriter, by reducing the time and expense involved in creating documents, encouraged the spread of systematic management. Joitske observes that the power of social media is more about the culture of openly sharing knowledge, collaboration, and engaging in co-creation.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. You can assign a second person to be a scribe or you can have participants use sticky notes to document their own ideas. In addition, here are a few more techniques and facilitation playbooks to explore : MashUp Brainstorm Activity. Conclusion.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. It’s well-documented at this point that people are hungry to engage with causes they care about in various forms. I left that session knowing exactly the direction I wanted to take Social Actions.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But it is annoying when something is trumpeted as open source but hasn’t been architected or documented in a way that would allow others to make practical use of the code). But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. at 9:36 am Ha ha, I want to know what the naughty word is!!

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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