Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

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. They were talking about API’s.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

We have seen awareness campaigns like World Wildlife Federation’s “wildlife watch&# (next time you see wildlife, Tweet it with the hashtag #wwf!), You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. The power of blogs is the real-time documentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

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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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen.

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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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