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12NTC: Open-Source Mobile Apps for Social Change

Tech Soup

Broadcast SMS. Think about that in comparison to your email open rates. Crowdsourcing and mapping. Crowdmap is a hosted version of Ushahidi , which allows you to gather data and visualize it on a map. Crowdmap is a hosted version of Ushahidi , which allows you to gather data and visualize it on a map.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it which provides a browser bookmark tool that allows you to add geolocation machine tags to any of your flickr photos, which in turn will show up on this map : Upping the Tagging Ante to StoryMapping.