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

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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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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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. How do your individual goals map to those organizational goals?

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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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