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Mapping Web2.0 Censorship: Access Denied Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. The Access Denied Map does not pretend to be exhaustive.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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Infographic: How Do Social Network Users Lean Politically?

Care2

As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. Predictive modeling was then used to map the politics of the social web.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. Citizen journalism. Podcasting. Text messaging.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. Again - the GEO site is here: [link].