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Win Up To $15,000 in Sunlight Labs Mashup Challenge

NTEN

When I heard about this contest, I asked myself, "Who would I know with API coding skills and a passion for government transparency -- and who likes winning money?" > Learn more about the contest at [link]. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz APIs. " Duh: the NTEN community!

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DataMasher a Winner at the White House Too

Forum One

By now, most of you have probably heard that our DataMasher application won Apps for America 2 via our press release or our celebratory tweets. The competing applications were impressive and the voting was close. Then you can share them with your friends and comment on the mashups of others. Apparently, we won by only 12 votes!

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Change The Web Challenge from Social Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not too long ago, I submitted my chapter to BJ Fogg's Psychology of Facebook Applications. The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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Data Portability for Good

NTEN

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. March of Dimes Contest (features community voting). It isn??????t

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. API stands for Application Programming Interface, but don???t Examples of Mashups.

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