Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

The value to an individual is that they are able to track their health and can change their behavior to a healthier lifestyle. Now, researchers are interested in using this data to better inform public health research, but there are some thorny issues to navigate to make this a reality. How long will this data be stored?

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JANUARY 27, 2010

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. Essentially, we give organizations a simple tool to manage project information, like photos and videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

If you're new to the topic, it is a great way to get up to speed and will would definitely help you inform your strategy. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank). The other half of the guide is an online component to help you keep up to date. It's called the RWW Community Management Aggregator.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2009

We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. In short, Ushahidi aggregates information from text messages and other media, presenting a clearer picture of a crisis situation as it emerges. read more.

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MARCH 29, 2017

It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. By making your data available to others, you present your organization as a thought leader and a trusted provider of information and services. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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APRIL 8, 2011

it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! If you have questions about the application, I’m happy to respond with my experience, or message the Qriously team to weigh in with more information!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Should EDN be an aggregator for the sector, pulling in news and reports, information and so on? So how do you cut through the noise, how do you sift through the random updates, how do you connect and engage?

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APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Don't forget to add the search tool. Hurry the deadline is May 19th to submit your idea. A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2007

* There was a connected desktop app that every citizen who owned a computer could download that would be their window into their information ??? For those without personal computers, they could login to a secure website to access and change the information. connected to the Government platform. recent changes??? Or SMS your updates in.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

List Five Ways You Plan To Use the Information. How will you share the information? Do you know how to scan information quickly and pick out patterns. Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. Who are the influential voices in the social media space covering your issue area or topical domain? Internal Process.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. Jim Craner , MapTogether. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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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. The free sharing of information in ways that allow for new innovation. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. But I have a first take.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. Going forward, it will be more important to connect your user’s social addresses with this information, too. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Whether it’s data or dances, silos keep people separated at the party.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. Jim Craner, MapTogether. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

"    Use of Points When Selecting Tools:   He only gives participants a choice of 18 tools and it is a wide range (more technical tools like Drupal, Joombla, and Mashups), but they have a budget of 10 points - so this naturally leads to a discussion of priorities.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

This graphic is a mashup of Priscilla Brisbane's illustration of Levels of Engagement in advocacy campaigns with this blog post from the Social Organization's blog about how how business relationships and how technology helps or hinders. Chris Brogan tweeted about this blog this morning and I when I read the post it got me thinking.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

In a post on his blog, Logic + Emotion , David Armano mentions that 60 to 65% of people are visual thinkers , meaning that they do their “thinking through visual processing using the part of the brain that is emotional and creative to organize information in an intuitive and simultaneous way.” Information Aesthetics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Science has an answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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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. If not everyone is easily accessible by email, this is a good way to broadcast information to a group of folks. There's the basic site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. This can inform. How will you apply the information? Openness - ????A It's messy.

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MARCH 19, 2010

We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Bicknell Information Group in booth 75.

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JULY 1, 2009

Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. Is it OK to put client home address information into a public mapping website? As we use servers for an increasing array of things -- storage, memory, I/O - -we're going to need more of them. In other words, data sharing. The questions are big. The same rules apply.

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MARCH 19, 2010

We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Bicknell Information Group in booth 75.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Make an informed decision. Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook). Amazon S3, Google Checkout, Google Maps, PayPal). So, what can you do in the cloud?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. Handheld Awesome Detectors: Sustainable Apps Making more sustainable choices is getting easier with help ubiquitous information, thanks to passionate geeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Check out the curriculum resource section which has a lot more than ten resources, but not too many to cause information overload. Marnie Webb tagged " Stories for Change ," an online community of digital storytellers. " It would have fit nicely if there ten episodes of this show, but this was too funny to pass up.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? How about Digg ?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? How about Digg ?

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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

MARCH 22, 2007

The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. If the photographer has informed the. In designing and developing The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. website with The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology we???ve ve found ourselves spending a lot of time in Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. The audience will have ample opportunity to ask questions and respond. With snacks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. | View | Upload your own. In designing and developing The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. In this post, I???m

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