Application Ideas Map Mashup 
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 8, 2011
That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. The application is currently in a closed beta, and I was lucky enough to get access to start playing around with it. I think there are so many potential applications for Qriously in the nonprofit sector!
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 27, 2010
Where did the idea for OpenAction begin? I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. We were both doing similar, but separate mapping initiatives.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 17, 2006
These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 29, 2010
" Other ideas include a special Museum badge. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. " I like the idea of leveraging a networked effect of the swarm badge. Build an application using the Foursquare API.
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 22, 2009
The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. Facebook has lots of applications, it’s true: whether they are specifically targeted at “green&# efforts (like the lil green patch app) or not (like Causes ). It’s not going to work.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 8, 2007
The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. It isn??????t
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 20, 2006
There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. That’s good news.
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