Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. Joitske recommend Learning To Change. 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. Blue-print thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. And the results have been impressive. In so doing, it has had more impact for less cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I got a message from one of my readers, Ashley Messick, on Facebook about a recent post about Social Actions Twitter for Good Facebook Group and TwitterFeed Mashup I wanted to Digg post about Save the World with Twitter and wasn't quite sure how to categorize it when submitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

The value to an individual is that they are able to track their health and can change their behavior to a healthier lifestyle. Now, researchers are interested in using this data to better inform public health research, but there are some thorny issues to navigate to make this a reality. How long will this data be stored?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. changing individual motions into a unified movement. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Empish Thomas shares his dream to change public perception of what it means to be visually impaired (soon to be published in the blog of Atlanta’s Center for the Visually Impaired). An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Do you believe you can change the world? it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! Do you think you can change the world? I asked mobile users around the globe “do you think you can change the world?&# That’s right. And the results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2008

The last leg of the journey was to attend the Netsquared Conference (N2Y3) where three winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge were selected by conference participants. A Mashup Of 29+ Social Action Platforms ??? There were two winners announced for the Case Foundation DonateNow Mashup Challenge : Social Actions ???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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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. Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

TechSoup Global's NetSquared project is doing some amazing work, particularly on the use of mobile technologies and social change around the world. They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. Last year's Mashup winner — Ushahidi — is the topic of the first case study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Found out why you should give Change Everything your vote and how to vote.

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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.) I’m glad to see that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism. but I couldn't find an extensive list of twenty-something bloggers who focus on nonprofits, social change, and social action. Blogs by Gen Y. Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

to Change The World. While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. He has created a " Mashup Page " with the sub-title: Dr. Mashup or: Why educators should learn to stop worrying and love the remix. site that has photos, etc.,

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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. So, to change the name we need to: Come up with a new name (done) - We Are Media: Social Media Starter Kit for Nonprofits. Stuff to change: logo (done). change slideshare group name ( done ). change slideshare group name ( done ). change the name of the google group ( done ).

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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

MAY 10, 2007

recent changes??? For those without personal computers, they could login to a secure website to access and change the information. connected to the Government platform. It would be wikified, so they could append it and correct it with a ???recent screen to keep track of the history ??? keeping all parties accountable.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. According to NetSquared founder and current Caravan Studios CEO Marnie Webb , the goal of these challenges was "to profile and accelerate technologically innovative projects focused on social change."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

How are their preferences changing? How is the conversation around your organization, issue area, or program changing? Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. What do they like or dislike about your program or service? How are technologies and social trends impacting your supporters? You can try searching for people twitter.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2009

Many find the the social media space a little overwhelming as it is clear the landscape changes on a daily basis and is filled with strange terms, for example what is astroturfing and what exactly is a mashup - does it have anything to do with mash potatoes ?

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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. These were changes that we had wanted to make for a long time. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why. I left that session knowing exactly the direction I wanted to take Social Actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. celebration of shared sensations of change?

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

" It sparked a debate - that the technology, in of itself, doesn't create the change, but may help facilitate it. It was created to celebrate the launch of a new Twitter mashup that makes it super easy to share actions with your friends: (it also works with Facebook!): [link].

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

I'd also like to point out a video genre that has been used for social change: machimina. Need more inspiration to create video or machinima for social change? Next ManorMeta Mashup coming soon, enjoy this for now! Machinima, derived from the words ???machine??? Check this out.

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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 ! the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. NpTech Conversations.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. If funding doesn’t help incentivize this change, our sector will remain in a slow dance toward synchronization. . By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Here is some reading: WSJ - [link] Summation, Auren Hoffman: [link].

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

We've talked ad infinitum about how social media is changing the way nonprofits do their work, but it's also changing the way your staff are embracing technology. Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. It will cost a lot of time to make the change happen. In other words, data sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. . These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Submitted by Michael Silberman. What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

  It changes things quite dramatically.  The way the entire market functions has changed drastically, we reached the digital tipping point. If you're going to listen, you need to respond, and then make change.     "Being social with media."   There are four c's: Context.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., If you change your mind, or your needs change, you can simply switch to another solution. Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. SQL is a bit fiddly at the best of times, and if we move past SaaS to DaaS (Data as a Service) it frees up a *lot* more time to share ideas on the functionality front. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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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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