Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

According to the Pew Neighbors Online study recently released, 27% of American adult Internet users (or 20% of adults overall) use “digital tools to talk to their neighbors and keep informed about community issues. There are various tools for hyperlocal searching, and one I’m looking at recently is called Sency for Cities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Indirect Content.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Ushahidi , winner of the 2008 NetSquared Challenge first attracted widespread attention for their work aggregating and mapping real-time reports from victims and relief workers in the violent aftermath of the 2007 Presidential election (see Ushahidi's legacy page for an archived version of this amazing tool).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

In 2007, Michael Wesch , a digital anthropologist, created this striking video called The Machine is Us/ing Us , to explain in five minutes what the Web 2.0 I'd aggregate the responses to create a shared mental map. In the early days, the big hurdle was getting to shared understanding of what it really means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Today, I came across an interesting post from John Bell of Digital Influence Mapping Project blog has an interesting idea , nonprofitwidget.org: Non-profits need to engage their brand ambassadors now. A promotion toolbox will give the nonprofit staff a set of procedures and tools to help promote their widgets.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. Who are they and what are they working on? VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. Third Place: $10,000.

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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. Matt Cooperrider, a key architect of the effort, called Twitter Vote Report ???the

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Is a email users and non-users the next digital divide? 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.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Vivek Kundra, Chief Technical Officer, for the District of Columbia, discussed the District’s radical transformation a model of the to the digital public sphere model. The rise of data aggregation and collections has spurred tremendous collaborative interactions among people. For Kundra, old paper records had to be digitized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. I'll be gathering them up from my various digital nooks and crannies and organizing them into this space. I want to improve my writing.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. 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. Playing hyper violent games does lead to aggregation. See the fan sites.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

style projects are major initiatives require a somewhat complicated blend of physical exhibit and digital capabilities. 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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis. Armano describes this as digital anthropologists sifting through qualitative data and metrics to reap insights. Listening leads to engagement.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

At DNL OmniMedia, we specialize in Digital Nonprofit Leadership. This plan should encompass all technology and digital platforms that support your nonprofit’s work, providing a: Strategy for using your existing technology in smarter ways. Research top providers online using third-party sites, review aggregators, and educational guides.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

This is part two of TechSoup staff recommendations for mobile apps beyond the usual suspects : Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Pandora, iTunes, and Google Play. has a great weather map. Reeder – is an RSS reader or news aggregator that compiles information from several online sources into a single place.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

The request went like this: I need an Android application for collecting certain important information, as text/surveys/videos/pictures, from staff/contractors/whistleblowers/clients/the public that I can upload to a server so we can respond/analyze/put on a map/put into a progress report. This post also appeared on Benetech''s Blog.

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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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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

Meanwhile, 40% say they struggle to prove the ROI of their digital marketing initiatives. That’s why In this article I’ve put together a list of 5 practical reasons why digital marketing fails to get results with actionable solutions to move you towards success. How To Measure Your Digital Marketing Results.

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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. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. Visual Mapping and Diagnostics for Scaling Change : From Steve Waddel, Iscale - this paper has done the impossible!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it It looked a little more comprehensive then just asking people to tag and then trying to aggregate (we also looked at other tools like CrowdVine which was very comparable, almost a coin flip).

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So maybe you have a form that you use to have input, a survey you use for input, you have small digital groups that you have input, a Slack channel for input. So however it makes sense to move information within your organization, that’s how I would take your input in and aggregate it. Who gets to be involved in consultation?

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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.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Also essential to the day were 12 coaches, whose areas of expertise ranged from digital media to business analysis, and three judges: James Rooney, Microsoft; Deena Pierott, iUrbanTeen; and Sonya Watson, Tides Foundation. Includes computer labs, classrooms, video recording studio, and current technology accessible to the community.

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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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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For instance, tech companies use algorithmic management to precisely surveil and manage the details of workers’ daily working conditions—tracking every delivery time, cataloging every customer review, mapping workers’ daily locations, even noting the length of bathroom breaks. payday loans), subpar products (e.g.,

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