Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

How data are being used to frame the issues on which nonprofits and voluntary associations work and what civil society can do about it; The realities of association and expression in a digital age and what these changes mean for civil society. p2173 @NoelDickover @kanter It’s nice when friends connect. How long will this data be stored?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. It supports up to 20 wireless connections and has 16 GB of storage, so it can work as a backup network drive. I first heard about this from Marnie Webb, who co-founded NetSquared.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

TechCrunch suggests the issue is in the business model: Unfortunately, the business models have not been worked out yet to accommodate such mixing of data. O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. They've incorporated an interactive component, called Gallery Tag where visitors select a tag or create their own, go find works in the galleries that match, enter accession numbers and earn points and prizes. (For

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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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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

DataSF : A clearinghouse of over 100 machine-readable government data sets from a range of city departments, including Police, Public Works, and the Municipal Transportation Agency. Independent programmers have used the data to develop a range of innovative mashups an mobile apps, which the city lists in its App Showcase.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

TechSoup Global's NetSquared project is doing some amazing work, particularly on the use of mobile technologies and social change around the world. Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

There is so much I'm learning from educators about this, including some of the comments I culled from the Chat from yesterday's Extension webinar: In our 4H Youth Development work, copyright has been a big issue, but this step 8 opens up some things. where derivative work is allowed is a great tool for the. site that has photos, etc.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. Stephen Downes replies here. WHY did I remove ???Non

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. Here's how it works: Here's a Foursquare Flashmob deal (you don't have to be a Foursquare user to participate in the group discount, but if you are, it adds to the fun!) They're running it in connection with a show promotion.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Voting's open till Monday! Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg: Sometimes it's WHO you know ;).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

It works by replacing ads with questions in smartphone and tablet apps. it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! Do you believe you can change the world? And once all 100 responses were gathered, I took a look at all the data.

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NTEN

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. Sharing your data with others leverages experts inside and outside the organization to further your work. Ensures the survivability of your work. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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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. It's promotional literature says it fills the gap between one-on-one messaging and large e-mail marketing newsletters and it works on IM networks and Facebook. Want to listen on Twitter?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Here are a few fundraising ideas that I have seen work in the past. Think battle of the bands, a concert, a DJ mashup, or a party that people will pay to attend or have a karaoke night where attendees not only pay to participate but can donate to see your staff sing! General Fundraising Ideas. Auctions are a great way to raise funds.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! And we can't forget to highlight the fact that TechSoup 's NetSquared Mashup Challenge helps encourage, spread the news about, and fund this type of work each year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In general, it may be considered fair use if you are reproducing a work for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. The nature of the copyrighted work. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Idealware has a great article on CRMs, and how they are different, and how you can begin to figure out what might work best. Of course, all nonprofits already have a CRM (even if it is a spreadsheet) – the issue is, generally, migration to a new system, or integration with what they already have to add new features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. celebration of shared sensations of change? Dan points over to the Measurment Camp Wiki that I need to explore further.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. " Ushahidi won the challenge in 2008, receiving $25,000 to support and expand its work. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. We got to know Ushahidi mere months after the platform launched.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

He talks about the benefits of both putting book content online *and* also allowing people to engage/comment/mashup the text. And I found especially interesting his mentioning of "what bibliophiles call book discovery.". This would massively improve what bibliophiles call book discovery. How to do well with "ideas discovery"?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website. I'd like to close by pointing you all to this Valentine's Day appropriate post by Eric Johnson of the Case Foundation : " How to Date a Mashup Programmer " Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2008

Josh Leo's Video Mashup We R The Media. We're now working our away through the to do list and will launch building Module 2 tomorrow. Okay, back to the content and the fun work in the morning - thanks everyone! No small irony that the book and our project is about the collaborative power of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Decide what works best for your working style. If you work in the nonprofit tech sector, take a look at some nonprofit profiles. Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. You can "protect your updates" or "open." Pros/cons to each. Decide whether you want an organizational account or individual account.

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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. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs October 17, 2006 One of the best parts of Web 2.0 for geeks is APIs.

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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].

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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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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

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. The party started as an awkward middle school dance -- boys on one side, girls on the other -- but has become a wedding crasher style dance party where friends, family, and work all grind up on the dance floor. .

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Special thanks to the Dresden Dolls and Michael Pope for letting us hack into their awesome work. Next ManorMeta Mashup coming soon, enjoy this for now! ~in Click To Play "A machinima short music video we shot in Second Life. AmaBe Cheeky stars in this one with Zeke Poutine, In Kenzo and the janjaweed of Camp Darfur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2007

I think of her work as a mashup between an extremely talented court room artist, journalist, social activist and philanthropist. I encourage you to support my efforts in raising awareness about these issues and the organizations that are working to resolve them by clicking on the donation badge."

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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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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"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. Check out the same area we saw above using the Map Kibera map.

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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!  .  But wasn't sure if I was going to have the time given the packed schedule to be truly inventive.     I've shared them on the wiki here.

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