Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

Disaster 206

Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these. rating items. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy. That can make it difficult to navigate.

Knowledge 86

Knowledge Share Network Community 86

NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. By using the simple metaphor of t-shirt size to represent a US State's obesity rate, and making them “grow” over a two decade period - we can quickly see how America's waistline has ballooned in since 1987. And for good reason.

Data 100

Data New York City Storytelling New York 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Second C: Collaboration. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. By using the simple metaphor of t-shirt size to represent a US State’s obesity rate, and making them “grow” over a two decade period - we can quickly see how America’s waistline has ballooned in since 1987. Focus the Story.

Data 68

Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. By using the simple metaphor of t-shirt size to represent a US State’s obesity rate, and making them “grow” over a two decade period - we can quickly see how America’s waistline has ballooned in since 1987. Focus the Story.

Data 67

Data Story New York City New York 67

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. "If you're looking at an individual story a human will beat a machine to death," says real-time text analysis service Lexalytics , "but on the aggregate a machine will do the same to a human." Real-Time Publishing.

Web 73

Web Examples Time Action 73