Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Here are a few examples: District of Columbia's Data Catalog : The District has opened up 405 data sets across multiple agencies. Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009. What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why.

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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. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 for geeks is APIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits need to work less as isolated institutions and more as networks. At Monitor Institute we are interested in “emerging practices” in the social sector—including new more networked ways of working. Like many nonprofits working in more networked ways, KaBOOM!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Paul Young's analysis of what worked, what didn't in his fundraising campaign can give you some hints of what to measure. It was created to celebrate the launch of a new Twitter mashup that makes it super easy to share actions with your friends: (it also works with Facebook!): [link]. What's missing from this list?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. " Map Kibera is a stellar example of "public participation GIS" -- involving a community in the creation of a map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. One colleague suggests that users should be able to contribute original work. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I interviewed Joitske about her work way back in 2006. I did a mashup with social media framing. The adoption of the typewriter, at just the same time that women began to work in offices, reflected changes in women's roles, new ideas about the organization of work, and the rapidly growing corporations of the day.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. " Map Kibera is a stellar example of "public participation GIS" -- involving a community in the creation of a map.

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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.  Broadcasting AT large crowds doesn't work.    Example ComcastCares on Twitter.    It is your time - learn how it works and make the media. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

It gets your work out there. now for four years because it is simple, direct, and easy. Or, I get gasps of horror from some colleagues who more concerned about how to "lock up" their content with "all rights" reserved and hire IP lawyers to help them police and protect their work so no one "steals it." I've used this license.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! re working with???something Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. NpTech Conversations.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

   That was until I got this email from Demetrio Maguidgad explaining how he remixed the game, how it worked, and the files!  Scenario Cards:   I love this twist - these are the real life examples that get at issues of adoption, information overload, loosing control, etc. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! An example? Another example.

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NTEN

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. For BI to work, you need good data. Definitions.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Before you leap into the cloud, you're going to have to do some leg work. For example, if you have determined that you need a CRM solution, you need to understand how you are going to facilitate your business processes through the system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A person with short, dark hair and a mustache works on a laptop. Thought leadership webinars are best if you want to dig into a specific topic related to your area of work. Here’s one of our favorite examples: Here’s a session from Julia Campbell , an expert in social media marketing for nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

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. Create a twitter map mashup of the museum and combine staff, automatic, and guest tweets to generate a dynamic, real-time view of what’s happening at the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. activity works in similar way: pulling out John Collier Jr??? am sure the nonprofits I work with wouldn???t shows up on a site about AIDS for example. In this post, I???m Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0 However, I.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2009

Getting a peek into how he approaches his work induced three aha moments related to prototyping, visitor entrypoints, and designing for maximum impact. For example, he created a game for the retreat called "Faces in the Crowd" which was designed to encourage participants to meet each other. It had a very simple structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

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. is a great example. Take for example, Ideablob. How do you evaluate this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

Participants were challenged with an active listening exercise while two peers gave presentations on their work with data. This campaign melded multiple ideas for a mashup and multiple dimension, campaign approach. Next, nonprofits would submit data and stories about how they are tackling the issues on which they are working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up at informal sessions known as Green Drinks. org Actions are a great example of coordinated events with a shared agenda. It also seems designed to work with any issue-focused community (not just climate change). Is your community all about the socializing?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2011

I cannot even imagine the amount of work it took to bring together the coalition of organizations, legislators, volunteers, celebrities, voters, passionate constituents and dollars to pass this bill. Regardless of cause or size of org, HRC is a leading example of what can be achieved through an integrated, multi-channel approach.

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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. Yammer , a private short-messaging service for corporations, asks, "What are you working on?" Yammer asks, "What are you working on?" When you augment an image, you distort your own face.

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