Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008.

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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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JANUARY 20, 2011

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The application says to Social Actions, “Show me everything that matches this URI.”

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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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. for geeks is APIs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. Essentially, we give organizations a simple tool to manage project information, like photos and videos.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

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 ). You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Made Earth Day Every Day?&# - I certainly hope not!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Don't forget to add the search tool. Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. If you already have a presence on MySpace, check this out - causes has just launched an application at MySpace. Want to listen on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

& & Rachel and Erin spoke about advocacy applications.& Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).& & Michaela Hackner shared some insights on what it is like to be the sole techie in an organization and encouraging adoption of social media tools. &

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Since I'm going to be teaching the Listening Module for the WeAreMedia workshop in February, I'm going to write up some step-by-steps on how to do this with different monitoring tools. Here's a neat tool to help you design your profile. Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. I'm starting with Twitter (don't know what Twitter is?

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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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JULY 1, 2009

As the line between personal and professional use of technology tools like Facebook blurs, your organization needs to know how it will respond and set clear guidelines and policies for staff. What data and applications can and should you give them access to via their phones? . Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals.

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JULY 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Why not contribute to the Social Actions Labs Idea Wiki?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! 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. NpTech Conversations.

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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. I'm excited that a few of us can meet face-to-face! 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

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 11, 2006

Relatively unskilled developers will just mashup a bunch of enterprise services and -voila! mission critical software applications. The idea that the business objects -- the bricks, if you will -- and the end-user application -- the wall -- can be completely separated conceptually is just not true.

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APRIL 16, 2007

There's twittervision , twitter's most popular mashup, which shows tweets (twitter entries) real-time on a global map. And many more mashups and applications available here. Which means: You don't need to have the same application open as someone else to communicate with them. There's the basic site.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud. An example?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. Charlie is also waiting for context-aware computing, where the application will know from the user, the time, the room the workstation is in and so on, just how to react to an input. EDS fellow Charlie Bess, writing this week suggests the "Web 2.0"

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JULY 17, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Why not contribute to the Social Actions Labs Idea Wiki?

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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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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Toobla is a brand new social bookmarking tool and I was very impressed! widgets like YouTube or other videos, photos, documents, games and widget applications). Tags: Tools bookmarking social toobla. Yesterday I met Jake and Brian from Toobla.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. Individual profiles, groups, fan pages and applications.

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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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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As a general rule, these are product agnostic, which means you’ll learn something you can use in your job that doesn’t involve using a specific platform or tool. You’ll get a closer look at how the tools you’re already using can support your team. There are webinars on every topic you can imagine! A mega-nar, if you will.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out Quick Hits.

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