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2009 Golden Dot Awards: Voting is Open

NTEN

Winners will be announced on Thursday, April 16, and the winners will be honored at the 2009 Politics Online Conference (April 20 - 21). Vote here for the 2009 Golden Dot award winners. Oustanding Online Campaigns (National and local). Best Animation or Mashup . Online Politician of the Year. Best Candidate Blog.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

But local and state governments are also setting their data free. Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009. 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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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

   They had their staff, local experts in the location, add tips about what was interesting for visitors in the neighborhood.  In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief.  A 3 day walk). Track volunteering efforts.

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! While KaBOOM!

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

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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The Future of Supporter Data (Or, Is Your Data at a Middle School Dance?)

NTEN

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. Grab my mailing address and you can send more locally-focused messaging (or junk mail). By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Collect my cell and there is a 90% chance I open your text message. My email gives you 10-15% open rate.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"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. The image above is an example from the Sumatra earthquake response of 2009.

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