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Personal Health Data: It’s Amazing Potential and Privacy Perils

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. changing individual motions into a unified movement. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network.

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Replacing Mobile Advertising with Real-Time Data

Amy Sample Ward

Do you believe you can change the world? As soon as the question is live, you start seeing the impressions and the responses, aggregated in real time. it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! Do you think you can change the world?

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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm enjoying how Robin Broitman aggregate links about social media. 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? Photo by Caveman92223. Take her ROI and Measurement list.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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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.

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