Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2008

Josh Leo's Video Mashup We R The Media. Last week a group of lawyers representing a forthcoming book told us they didn't want us using same for the name NTEN's project. No small irony that the book and our project is about the collaborative power of social media.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Congrats to Jon Stahl , from One/Northwest , for being a contributing author to a new book on Plone. I'd like to close by pointing you all to this Valentine's Day appropriate post by Eric Johnson of the Case Foundation : " How to Date a Mashup Programmer " Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Online, this may mean participants creating their own mashups or using organizational data to construct visualizations. She is the author of the new book The Participatory Museum , a practical guide to visitor participation in cultural institutions.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

She also pointed me to an older post on her blog about one of theories of change in the book based on thinking styles. I did a mashup with social media framing. From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. Just like you might cross-reference the subject of a book with a Dewey Decimal number, we are now cross-referencing each action with a universal identifier that helps to link it to related data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

This graphic is a mashup of Priscilla Brisbane's illustration of Levels of Engagement in advocacy campaigns with this blog post from the Social Organization's blog about how how business relationships and how technology helps or hinders. I just wish my Facebook friends or my gmail address book worked well for that purpose.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08 And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. { at 8:02 pm I agree that openness is the key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The Face (book) of NetSquared Champions. Order is in the Eye of the Tagger (an excerpt from David Weinberger's recently published book "Everything is Miscellaneous" and Lifehack has a terrific post " Top 10 Ways To Use del.icio.us " Some geek fun that nonprofit techies will appreciate. Two tagging related posts.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

The program book has gone to print, the Miss Piggy costume has arrived, and the registration numbers keep rising. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Fine writes about in her book Momentum. The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

The program book has gone to print, the Miss Piggy costume has arrived, and the registration numbers keep rising. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes?

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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.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies. A mashup isn't cool just because it uses data from different services - does the service provide real value? So what does Charlie want?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

EngageJoe.com blogs about his experiences spearheading and contributing to social change mashups and working with nonprofits on online strategy. Mobilizing Youth: Ben Rigby of MobileVoter incidentally also wrote the book Mobilizing Generation 2.0: His blog covers social technology, social action, philanthropy - with a UK perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or API Many people are experimenting with mashups using Google, eBay, Amazon, Windows Live, and Yahoos APIs. Examples of Mashups. Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. I came across Jeff Howe's definitive book on Crowdsourcing and in the last chapter he offer guidelines for crowdsourcing. This isn't the first time a classical music organization has turned to social media and crowdsourcing.

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