Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Here's a few examples of web apps already created by Social Actions : 'Related Ways to Take Action' WordPress Plugin : A plugin you can add to any WordPress.org blog that identifies the keywords of each blog posts and then displays related ways to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.  In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

drug that’s caught on hot and heavy in the last six months: twitter. If you’ve never seen twitter, take a moment and check it out. There's twittervision , twitter's most popular mashup, which shows tweets (twitter entries) real-time on a global map. And many more mashups and applications available here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. I did a mashup with social media framing. I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

   Gave an example of a blogger outreach program where they gave bloggers a product - solar powered batter recharger.     Example ComcastCares on Twitter.  Gave examples of how people could use social media to leverage Hawaiin tourism. Social media makes things visible.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. But the real story is much more complicated. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mashups make me want to sing! Here's a very simple example: You may have a goal of distributing 10,000 copies of a report via your web site. Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. I want to eat statistics for dinner. Preposterous, I say!

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MARCH 19, 2010

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Feature Set- Instant online examples of Qgiv’s functionality iPhone App Demo- Examples of how supporters of your organization can become mobile fundraisers through mobile phone applications. Sage in booth 18.

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MARCH 19, 2010

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Feature Set- Instant online examples of Qgiv’s functionality iPhone App Demo- Examples of how supporters of your organization can become mobile fundraisers through mobile phone applications. Sage in booth 18.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

We're hosting a contest called the NetSquared Mashup Challenge that I wanted to let you know about, and am hoping that you'll pass on to social changemakers and web innovators in your community. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Royal Opera House is crowdsourcing the storyline for an opera on Twitter in a month's time. (Hat A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Here is an example of an artistic program or creative process undertaken as a crowd and it isn't a cheap publicity stunt.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

Consider, for example, the Sony Wonder Technology Lab in New York City. When you make an audio mashup, your voice is part of the mix. Here is how four different online services solicit status updates: On Twitter , an open short-messaging site, asks, "What are you doing?" When you augment an image, you distort your own face.

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