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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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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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

MARCH 5, 2009

"Oh, a link to a map of legal drinking ages around the world , eh? " (And then it took me 5 minutes to find a map of risky drinking patterns. IdealistNews.org could very well become a terrific, and time-saving, central aggregator of nonprofit news and commentary -- but that's up to the community it builds.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2009

To help: You'll probably want a map of some sort. There's also a free iPhone app , featuring maps, that will also let you know how far you are from the steps of the inauguration, if that's something you care about. Tags: NPTech inauguration flickr twitter google maps iPhone.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. Walk Score rates your neighborhood's walkability and maps just about everything of interest near you, from bookstores to bars. Hey, things we like don't need to relate to NPTech when they're this revolutionary.). Read more posts on our blog.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

So Perla reached out to the aggregator sites that serve donors and did an incredible thing. Another example is the Hunger Relief Map from the Capitol Area Food Bank in Austin. The problem, in Perla's mind, was that the average donor would still have to spend additional time finding her site to get the information. She offered to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Gonna put them here for now and then aggregate and organize the list back over in the wiki we're using to plan our presentation after I finish the slide. IMHO the winners will be those that understand it's not enough to do the same old things. David also sent me an email summarizing responses from another UK Charity list.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

2010 was also a good year for maps and data visualization, from the true size of Africa and the relief efforts in Haiti to the amount of data Americans consume and the relative size of all the social media spaces.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2010

2010 was also a good year for maps and data visualization, from the true size of Africa and the relief efforts in Haiti to the amount of data Americans consume and the relative size of all the social media spaces.

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Haiti Africa Aggregator NTEN 52

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Just get started!

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The team is also building modules on top of this core platform that will compress data into text messages to send electronic medical records, create real-time maps to visualize health programs, and connect clinics to a revolutionary mobile phone-based diagnostic tool. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog.

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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. With little lead time, a few Climate Riders pulled together a site that aggregated all the action into one place at Climate Ride Live.

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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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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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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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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

With this information, you can make decisions on how to consolidate information in other locations, reorganize your site map, or identify links to external sites that may be drawing users away from your site. Check back with your analytics to see where people are dropping off and where they're aggregating. What are they not saying?

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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. And as Dave mentions, this happens through tagging.

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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

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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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. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. Visual Mapping and Diagnostics for Scaling Change : From Steve Waddel, Iscale - this paper has done the impossible! Take your pick!

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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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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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

You shouldn't choose the toolbox for your organization until after a strategy has been defined -- at which point the following should be considered: fish where the fish are , use tools that make sense for your audience , know there is no "one size fits all" plan and map tools directly to your strategy.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

and aggregates them. Twemes also aggregates Twitter posts (you direct it with a pound sign: #votereport). Mapping – Electronic mapping is truly a community phenomenon. But of course mapping has gone public. They work really well when you want to keep track of things like olympic results and electoral votes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I'm awlways delighted to discover new (to me) blogs written by women who work in the NPTECH space. I was inspired to do a regular summary after Deborah Finn assembled a Boston TechnoBabe Meta Feed. Sarah Pullman writes about how flickr is taking over the world.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She also writes for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and she also has one of the most read personal blogs in NPTech. Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field. It also means that privacy issues -- when there is a person on the other end of aggregated data are going to be much more of an issue."

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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