NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools.

Tools 59

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog.

Social Media 145

Social Media Change Media Lesson 145

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. Facebook has lots of applications, it’s true: whether they are specifically targeted at “green&# efforts (like the lil green patch app) or not (like Causes ). What do you think?

Green 102

Green Mashup Aggregator Org 102

Forum One

MARCH 15, 2010

Develop a focused pilot that maps projects and activities at a sub-national level, for one country, using open standards. Develop tools to bridge data collection and dissemination - how can we better connect SMS and other low bandwidth tools with mapping and visualization. Engage this community on prioritizing next steps.

Open 56

Open Develop Ideas Government 56

Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling.

Policy 52

Policy Content Share Strategy 52

NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

Haiti 82

Haiti Disaster Social Media Media 82

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool.

Philanthropy 55

Philanthropy Data San Francisco Missouri 55

NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Websites today are often full-blown applications. API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 Focus on the word “interface”, which means facilitating communication between two different applications. Think of APIs as connecting plugs between applications.

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API Social Media San Francisco Integration 84

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. At the moment we are in transition from hosted applications to mobile access to the cloud. on our own servers or desktops.

Social 65

Social South America Disaster Mobile 65

NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

Disaster 89

Disaster Haiti Los Angeles Social Media 89

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. At the moment we are in transition from hosted applications to mobile access to the cloud. on our own servers or desktops.

Social 61

Social South America Disaster Mobile 61

Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e.,

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Reflection Conference Communication Network 47

Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. (I

Haiti 50

Haiti Los Angeles Washington Social Media 50

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling.

Policy 36

Policy Data Content Share 36

Association Analytics

MARCH 14, 2022

With this in mind, look at activities that are broadly applicable to all members like event registrations, email clicks, and community activity. Use aggregate engagement scores to: Validate your value proposition. Define personas – aggregate data and build a journey map by persona. Award nominees. Segment customers.

Model 169

Model Aggregator Registration Activities 169

Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

aggregation without losing an adequate degree of quality)? What are the technical tools (databases, applications, platforms) that would help facilitate the work. Some of the key issues: how to get researchers, institutions, and governments to share and collaborate on their work.

Seattle 52

Seattle Global Data Metrics 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 This drove traffic.

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ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The team is also building modules on top of this core platform that will compress data into text messages to send electronic medical records, create real-time maps to visualize health programs, and connect clinics to a revolutionary mobile phone-based diagnostic tool. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog.

Mobile 36

Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

In less than a month, volunteers across the country, with no other resources than their know-how and volunteer time, built www.twittervotereport.com to stream individual messages from Twitter and that will aggregate messages into maps and graphs.

Report 50

Report Twitter Cleveland Indianapolis 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

whose applications are designed to be simple enough for anyone to use—is a term that mostly confuses and overwhelms people. application is not so easy. It’s easy to aggregate lots of them into a larger collection. Many museums have created short-term mapping or timeline projects that are post-it based. Many in-museum 2.0-style

Generation 20

Generation Tools Museum Wiki 20

Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online.

API 28

API Convio Open Social Media 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! and asking for ideas.

Social Network 50

Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

applications have changed the rules of online community. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If There are two sets of social roles here. Also announced 2.0 Commentary here.

Summary 50

Summary Wiki Flickr NTC 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

tools and business applications for it. Gonna put them here for now and then aggregate and organize the list back over in the wiki we're using to plan our presentation after I finish the slide. However, I'm willing to bet that many of the same people and their kids use web 2.0 apps to a community centre for Bangladeshi women.

Hype 50

Hype Nptech Wiki Slides 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

We are exploring this in Benetech Labs , where, together with our partners, we examine the viability of new software-for-good projects, prototype, and test new applications with the potential to deliver large-scale benefits to society. Although they each thought their app need was unique, each one was 90-95% the same.

Data 187

Data Impact Open Source Mobile 187

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Outlining this general budget upfront ensures that you’re mapping out a plan that your team can actually execute from the start, rather than a dream scenario that’s simply impossible with your current funding. Research top providers online using third-party sites, review aggregators, and educational guides.

Template 98

Template Guide Technology Consultant 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

The sector deserves comprehensive and computable data that can be openly aggregated, searched, checked, and analyzed. This tool readily allows anyone — from the investigative journalist to the parent of a sick child — to see which hospitals are safest.

Data 105

Data Impact Government Files 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. But that would be a lot of content! Take your pick!

Nptech 91

Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

When a technologist calls me to talk about their brilliant idea for a museum-related business, it's always a mobile application. But most mobile applications (as well as most audio tours) are made for solo experiences. A recommendation application that helps groups create relative profiles. Imagine for example.

Museum 40

Museum Group Mobile Project 40

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages. TweepsMap is a free tool that provides a visual, interactive map of your Twitter followers by country, state or city by simply logging in with your Twitter ID. PowerPoint Maps Online :: powerpointmapsonline.com.

Free 280

Free Mobile Nonprofit Map 280

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. and aggregates them. Twemes also aggregates Twitter posts (you direct it with a pound sign: #votereport). Mapping – Electronic mapping is truly a community phenomenon.

Social Media 62

Social Media Lesson Develop Media 62

Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

application I employ, it's also a powerful and graceful example of the potential of disaggregated content. There are people (I'm one of them) who aren't ready to play RSS flute concertos on Yahoo Pipes or traipse through Google map hacks. Heck, I'm not even advanced enough for an RSS reader to aggregate blogs to which I subscribe.

Google 20

Google Wikipedia Feeds Museum 20

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Redefining Philanthropy - Dwayne Rice Build a Salesforce application to facilitate a culture of philanthropy around education reform by providing a platform to track constituent engagement to lead people up the engagement ladder. The goal: greater open rates.

Ideas 94

Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Celebrate News Technology Nonprofit 90