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Citizens Driving Election Day Reporting With Twitter Vote Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is failure to bring ID to the polls thwarting first-time voters in Indianapolis? 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.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. 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.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. Michael Hoffman from See3 is worried. You can listen to a podcast of his remarks here.

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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API. SH: Were very excited about the developer community that were building around Open.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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