Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories. Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. link] is a climate change wiki. CoP15 Global Observatory worth a look [link].

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

As an Executive Director who tries to collaborate as often as possible, I know the stumbling blocks only too well, but we can all take some small steps to do some small sharing, and start to transform our sector's culture. So Perla reached out to the aggregator sites that serve donors and did an incredible thing. She offered to share.

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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. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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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. One of the sites discussed, CHNA.org.

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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.

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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. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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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. TakingItGlobal is an online community for youth interested in global issues that provides tools and resources for members to enagage and collaborate on issues they care about.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Transparent scorecard reporting: After aggregating a "grade" for each policy maker, publish it on the Internet, with all relevant substantiating information. Tags: Human Rights Communication Collaboration. See the Darfur scores for example.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2009

We're still days away, but you can try to make the time go faster by participating in Slate's " The People's Inaugural Address ", an experiment in collaborative writing. To help: You'll probably want a map of some sort. Tags: NPTech inauguration flickr twitter google maps iPhone.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Measurement & Evaluation: Measurement is playing a large role in fostering collaboration between foundations and NPO service providers to positively affect social change and assist decision makers with allocating grant dollars. Currently, we are building a solution to enable people to use uniform measurement for social change.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Amy Sample Ward recaps the lively discussion and shares some excellent resources like this Climate Debate Map , the Drupal.org profile of TckTckTck and the Climate Lab Wiki. We talk about collaboration a lot, but this is a true collabor-ACTION, mirroring the desire to work together seen across the climate movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

I'd aggregate the responses to create a shared mental map. Stop thinking that adopting social media or social software or online collaboration tools is a matter of selecting a tool off a menu. or social media was all about. In workshops, I'd play the video and have folks jot down words or themes.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. This map-based interactive data visualization makes it simple to select a neighborhood, and quickly see the neighborhoods income distribution, the real cost of hosing in that ‘hood, and then reveals the gaps. And for good reason.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

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. Tags: Influence Collaboration Data & Visualizations Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

We are a collaborative effort 30 funders strong , committed to funding, sharing, and learning about work to hear from the people we seek to help in order to influence and improve foundation and nonprofit practices. Carefully Map Out Timing. Fund for Shared Insight is trying to change that.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Netwo. All You Need is Love.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Some of the key issues: how to get researchers, institutions, and governments to share and collaborate on their work. aggregation without losing an adequate degree of quality)? how to organize and make accessible the huge quantity of data that already exists (and that will grow as sharing increases).

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling."

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. This map-based interactive data visualization makes it simple to select a neighborhood, and quickly see the neighborhoods income distribution, the real cost of hosing in that ‘hood, and then reveals the gaps. Data is the new black.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. This map-based interactive data visualization makes it simple to select a neighborhood, and quickly see the neighborhoods income distribution, the real cost of hosing in that ‘hood, and then reveals the gaps. Data is the new black.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2007

This post is an attempt to document a "long link back chain" ( term from Cogdog), identify an example of twittering with friends not at them (observation from spin via Chris Brogan ) and aggregate the links and key points from the eduserve session on virtual worlds. Cogdog responded with: @kanter you had to ask. [

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

A volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators have teamed up with the award-winning blog techPresident to launch Twitter Vote Report.  s go and ???tweet??? this election! Here's the background information from the press release.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

If the new story could be aggregated and given momentum, the shift will take place sooner. . To do this we have to add our trust and our power to aggregate the right kind of stories. . It offers us a “Map” of how each story affects people and communities. Collaboration Among Leading Initiatives . True change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. Why nothing about social aggregators ? The TechSoup Blog has a list of ten cool web2.0 tools to adopt. Here's one that isn't on the list: Mindmeister. has been around for a while.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The rise of data aggregation and collections has spurred tremendous collaborative interactions among people. For example, someone could mash-up a feed containing requests made to DC’s Department of Public Works with a map as done by Everyblock.com. It also allowed the U.K. government to run a “ Show Us a Better Way ” contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

1) Bystander: Reads only (2) Gives Feedback: May add a comment to a blog post or add a link to a wiki page (3) Joins the community: Signs up for a swarm list (4) Joins the expertise map/advisory group: Fills out a profile and identifies a module (5) Participants in the collaborative writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

put it in a UK context , we're seeing a new voluntary sector emerge, and if organizations want to survive and win funding they're going to have to show (i) greater accountability to stakeholders (ii) collaborate and share and (iii) embrace new technology, ie, web 2.0 ICT tools to support collaborative working ??? Anyway, last words.to

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

(Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Gilbert commented.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ? Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data. Data is also getting stored in new places.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

He shows the map of the underground layer of the hatch from the show put together by a fan. The map links to a detailed description. distributed collaboration - building worlds together. Playing hyper violent games does lead to aggregation. Ontological, formal, math, history, gegography, biographic). See the fan sites.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. I think that our best hope is to work for incremental successes.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

This year, we will complete the development of the first two technologies—the recording mechanism and the collaborative mapping tools. Using social software mechanisms allows people to browse and aggregate content in a way that is very fluid and flexible, but it is also critical that they are allowed to collect the object itself.

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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. But rather than replicating each other’s efforts and then charging for access to the results, these groups could follow a more collaborative, open model. Some of these groups are beginning to explore a collaboration.).

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