Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2009

Over the past month, I had the privilege of being the Forum One Project Manager for a fun, open-source web application development contest: the Apps for America 2: Data.gov Challenge. We conceived "DataMasher" -- a web application that allows users to "mash-up" two sets of state data using an operator of their choice.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Open source. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. Open Source – API. VolunteerMatch: Live Map. Implementation: Custom mash-up of site specific volunteer activity with geo data to map via Google Maps. Authenticate. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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Social Media Websites Integration Design 87

Care2

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

OpenStreetMap: If you’re looking for an alternative to Google Maps that is open source, check out OpenStreetMap.org which allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. The entire map of the earth has been crowdsourced.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Thousands of people - with the aid of their computers, mobile phones, and online applications - were able to do important work to save lives and bring resources where they were badly needed, without needing to travel. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters. One of the main ones that anchors this work is Ushahidi.

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Disaster Digital Haiti Effective 61

NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest recognizes software developers who create open source applications and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use. Thirty-five developers submitted web applications to the Challenge.

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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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Web API Open Source NTEN 100

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. • Mapping • Cloud computing. Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. See the map here.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Foundation application? Foundation application?

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti.

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Haiti Los Angeles Washington Social Media 50

Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Learners outline their own path using content discovery tools, content recommendations and pathways, skills mapping, and content indexing.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. The N2Y4 Mobile Challenge called for innovative mobile applications supporting social good. Third Place: $10,000. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

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. Matt Cooperrider, a key architect of the effort, called Twitter Vote Report ???the

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

If you want to be see photos being posted to flickr via a moving and zooming map interface, check out flickrvision - it rhymes with twittervision. Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week. Online Web Applications and Nonprofit Software.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps!

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Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

We are exploring this in Benetech Labs , where, together with our partners, we examine the viability of new software-for-good projects, prototype, and test new applications with the potential to deliver large-scale benefits to society. How can one app address the requirements of multiple social enterprises?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

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. applications have changed the rules of online community. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If

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Summary Wiki Flickr NTC 50

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Facebook Applications for Your Non-Profit Page. application. open source. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008. Easy RSS Updates with PingShot. How to Set Up a Non-Profit Facebook Page. Crowdsourcing: How Business and Nonprofits Tap into the Wisdom of Crowds. Accessibility. accountability. Associations. Best practices.

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Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The data is useful for business intelligence analysis, portfolio analysis, and other public good applications. For example, the GCAR platform powers the publicly-available map and database of grants which is a great way to quickly see where initiatives are being supported across the globe.

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Platform Foundation Examples Digital 56

Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Open-Source Tools. Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. Open Function is an automated data integration tool that connects anything to anything (think Internet of things sensors connected to water pumps in mines). Accounting. It's good for smaller groups of people.

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Product Tools Open Source Alternative 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) 2) Crowd Creation.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The first is our International Strategy Meetings, where we convene our founding women from 26 different countries, who come together and really examine what the local issues are, what are the global trends, what is the work that they can do in partnership, and they really map out their plan and their goals and their work for the coming year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

TweepsMap is a free tool that provides a visual, interactive map of your Twitter followers by country, state or city by simply logging in with your Twitter ID. Tripline is a clever way to visually plot check-ins on a map that can be shared with others. PowerPoint Maps Online :: powerpointmapsonline.com. It is a must download!

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Free Mobile Nonprofit Map 280

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Finally, the data should be easily mapped to State Department data on entity in control of territory aid is rendered throughout the duration of the project.

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Ideas Share Disaster Government 47

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. Present.me.

Web 274

Web Tools Free Mobile 274

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application.

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Web Tools Free Mobile 279

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application.

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Web Tools Free Social Media 258

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s actually the thing that put Macintosh on the map in the 80’s. Both applications are used to create print documents like flyers, brochures, newsletters, annual reports and full-blown magazines. is a free open source application. It is not a cloud application. to get started. and tutorials.

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