Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. In Spring 2009, we were approached by a group that was building an advanced video + action platform and that wanted to draw on the Social Actions API. 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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. Be Helpful. SQL is a bit fiddly at the best of times, and if we move past SaaS to DaaS (Data as a Service) it frees up a *lot* more time to share ideas on the functionality front. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

.  As Shelley says, " as people explore our area, the Brooklyn Museum staff help them along in their journey pointing out the joys of pancakes at Tom’s Restaurant or the killer wine selection at Abigail’s."      In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. Be Helpful. Thanks much for getting this going.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! In 2009, a dollar spent by the organization on online tools helped to improve 10 times as many neighborhoods as a dollar spent on playground equipment.

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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. If funding doesn’t help incentivize this change, our sector will remain in a slow dance toward synchronization. . By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. During his 4.5

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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. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org.

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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. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

The folks at Social Actions are trying to recruit a wide array of ideas from the non profit community for web applications and mashups Social Actions can build. To help accomplish this, they launched a wiki this week. May 18, 2009 | last minute Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Thanks again for the post. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. Handheld Awesome Detectors: Sustainable Apps Making more sustainable choices is getting easier with help ubiquitous information, thanks to passionate geeks.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

The folks at Social Actions are trying to recruit a wide array of ideas from the non profit community for web applications and mashups Social Actions can build. To help accomplish this, they launched a wiki this week. May 18, 2009 | last minute Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Thanks again for the post. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. This session will get beyond the trendy obsession with social networks and help participants better understand the dynamics and metrics of successful networks. With snacks! Non-Profit Communications in the 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The opera will be performed throughout the weekend of Deloitte Ignite (4, 5, 6 September 2009). A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Howe suggests using the crowd to help you filter the crap. Hat Tip Blog Herald ). How do you evaluate this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

Whatever your cause -- How would you help your online community socialize in the real world? org Actions " We're coordinating a distributed day of events for 24 October 2009 , uniting the world around a common call to action--and we're asking you to help. Would Change.org 's community benefit from "Change Drinks?"

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