Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2009

When it comes to communication strategies many nonprofits have tended to stay with the familiar one way message through: direct mail, print newsletters, a fundraising event, email, and telephone. And - what does crowdsourcing, permalinks or geotagging have to do with your organisation!

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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.) Be Helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Superstar NTEN member Amy Sample Ward interviews Clay Shirky -- NTC09 Plenary Speaker and author of Here Comes Everybody -- about how social media will affect the future of nonprofits, specifically about how nonprofits are (and should be) communicating with their members/supporters.

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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. The opportunity to hyper-personalize communication and accurately track our members and impact is here. Silos in nonprofits keep departments insulated and reduce communication. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Michaela Hackner and Sandy Smith, Forum One Communications. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services. 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? Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I remember sitting in a session by Kurt Voelker of ForumOne Communications, Tompkins Spann of Convio, and Jeremy Carbaugh of The Sunlight Foundation. API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) They were talking about API’s.

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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! has empowered more than 6,000 communities to build local playgrounds in the past few years (far more than the 1,700 it has built directly in 15 years). And the results have been impressive.

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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 Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

"    Use of Points When Selecting Tools:   He only gives participants a choice of 18 tools and it is a wide range (more technical tools like Drupal, Joombla, and Mashups), but they have a budget of 10 points - so this naturally leads to a discussion of priorities.  

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Disruptive Technology #5: Unified Communications. But think about how you personally send and receive communications every day. Fortunately, more and more communications vendors get it. Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. I'll confess, this took me a minute to get. Then came email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I did a mashup with social media framing. It allowed a system of communications that shaped the business world. I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. Joitske recommend Learning To Change. Now, have to get my hands on that survey and see if there my noodling holds water.

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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. Chris Brogan tweeted about this blog this morning and I when I read the post it got me thinking.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

The folks at Social Actions are trying to recruit a wide array of ideas from the non profit community for web applications and mashups Social Actions can build. Their goal is to build & bring to life between three to five of the communitys best ideas. 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 !

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Museum 2.0

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. You can communicate easily with groups of people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Communications. More and better interaction With podcasting you can also have subscribers, cmments, cross-postings, episode ratings, community chats, and mashups and more. Leveraging Communities Has set up a Ning.  " The social media era where it is so easy to get access and use the tools.  Connections.

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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 Be Helpful.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

The folks at Social Actions are trying to recruit a wide array of ideas from the non profit community for web applications and mashups Social Actions can build. Their goal is to build & bring to life between three to five of the communitys best ideas. Why not contribute to the Social Actions Labs Idea Wiki?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

JournaMarketing points to a blog post from Kayta's Nonprofit Marketing Blog called " Don't Speak Doglish " about clear communication guidelines. Marnie Webb tagged " Stories for Change ," an online community of digital storytellers.

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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. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

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! Would you like to enhance communication in your small-medium size nonprofit?

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NTEN

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! Would you like to enhance communication in your small-medium size nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

How is it that not for profits are managing to use communications technologies to rock social change--when they've got pennies to spend? Generation Y and the Future of Nonprofit Communications Generation Y engages more frequently and deeply with nonprofits than any previous generation. The sites attract millions. By Skylar Woodward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention? " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together. 20 practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. Non-Profit Communications in the 2.0 With snacks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. Examples of Mashups. Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. and the trends driving it.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise. Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise. Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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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. I only use email to communicate with old people , by Jeremiah Owyang. His blog covers social technology, social action, philanthropy - with a UK perspective. Philanthropy. by Connie Bensen.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Some might be focused entirely on thought leadership content; others may feature a mashup of thought leadership content and product sessions. Here’s one of our favorite examples: Here’s a session from Julia Campbell , an expert in social media marketing for nonprofits. A mega-nar, if you will.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

In May, I was lucky enough to spend a few days with community foundations at the annual GuideStar DonorEdge Learning Conference. Team 1: “Know Your Community: 5 in 10.”. This campaign melded multiple ideas for a mashup and multiple dimension, campaign approach. The campaign would have a media partner and “Media Day.”

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