Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

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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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Let's break it down into three major components: Applications: The tools that you use to run your nonprofit (e.g., Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Review your options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

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. Here's a few resources that might be of interest: How to do you explain flickr to those who haven't heard of it? It isn??????t Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. 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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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