article thumbnail

Cool Mashup of GoogleMaps for Advocacy via Global s

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What visual representations of geographic data can help tell your organization's or cause's story? When you click on a place-mark on Gharbia's Google Maps mashup, a pop-up reveals details, stories and videos of prisoners and their families. What are some ways that this could be used to enhance a nonprofit's program delivery?

Mashup 50
article thumbnail

Social Actions’ Change The Web Challenge in Oxford

Amy Sample Ward

Through a search engine, Open Actions XML micro-format, an open API, and third-party tools and widgets, you can find and share ways to get involved in the causes you care about. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. Learn about the Open Actions XML micro format, and how you can use it.

Action 100
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

YOU Can Bring These Dreams To Life— Nonprofit Blog Carnival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

inspired me to ask fellow bloggers to speak out on their big dream for their organization, cause or the nonprofit community this year, and how they’ll make it real , as they did in last January’s carnival. An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos.

Life 96
article thumbnail

Win Cash Monies for Changing the World

NTEN

The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). social actions mashup. You have until April 3rd to submit your project.

Mashup 36
article thumbnail

Fundraising Ideas

Tech Soup

When you reach out, create a relationship with them, and highlight how they, as an individual, made a difference in the cause. Or consider giving out a specific reward or celebration for people who contribute to a certain level of time or money to the cause. Nurture your donor base consistently not just when you want a donation.

Ideas 56
article thumbnail

Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. A Google maps, Twitter and Foursquare mashup that show’s where your event participants are checking in on a map and what they’re  talking about). "      Other ideas include a special Museum badge.

YouTube 95
article thumbnail

Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

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. It’s not going to work.

Green 102