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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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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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. The Process.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. Think of a digital platform as: . Think of a digital platform as: . The functions that digital platforms can provide include: .

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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

MAY 18, 2007

He has set up campaigns on seven different personal fundraising platforms: ChipIn - FirstGiving - GiveMeaning - SixDegrees - Fundable - Change.org - JustGive.org Britt Bravo points us to " Socially Responsible Idol " a write up about the NetSquared Innovation Award nomination and voting process by Jessica Guynn on SFGate.

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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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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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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We do it in a number of ways.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The majority of the executive departments and agencies opted to meet this requirement through the implementation of an open government public web site built on the IdeaScale platform. The individual sites, which are now live, provide an important opportunity for citizens to have their voice heard on open government.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform. 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.

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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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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s a free download for most computer OS platforms like Mac, Linux, and Windows, and is available in several languages as well. It’s actually the thing that put Macintosh on the map in the 80’s. is a free open source application. It is not a cloud application. to get started.

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