NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

" Duh: the NTEN community! Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz APIs. When I heard about this contest, I asked myself, "Who would I know with API coding skills and a passion for government transparency -- and who likes winning money?" Check the Labs' wiki for ideas.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

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.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. Charity Dynamics helped National Trust for Historic Preservation use open and social technology to re-engage their members and community. Voting's open till Monday!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It can be hard trying to get people in your network and community to donate or get involved in fundraising activities. Collect gold since it is selling at a high rate and you can ask your community to donate what they haven't worn in years. This is especially true if you only reach out to them when you need something from them.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

communities (and readers of this blog) have heard about the federal government's Data.gov initiative (and the winner of a certain Apps for America competition using these data sets). Independent programmers have used the data to develop a range of innovative mashups an mobile apps, which the city lists in its App Showcase.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! Organizations are looking for ways to learn about their community and those they want to reach but haven’t yet. And once all 100 responses were gathered, I took a look at all the data.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lovette Ajayi discusses Facebook's "Kindergarten" year and the recent Terms of Service uproar in a post on the Community Media Workshop 's blog. Case Foundation highlights advocacy mashups , and we're glad to see NTEN members Peter Deitz , Care2 , GlobalGiving , and MAPLight.org received some well-deserved props.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Next, 20 or so finalists were chosen via online community voting. Finalists were invited to present in person to the NetSquared community at a one-day conference. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Use the tool for what it is: a communications platform. Is there a way you would want your organization’s community or membership to interact with the content or actions distributed through the Change.org platform?

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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. What do you think? Let's start a nonprofit Diggfest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).& Long Station Patty in the Burbs 07G Community Mobilization David Lee King & & Rachel and Erin spoke about advocacy applications.& & Rachel shared some great examples of social media advocacy campaigns.

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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. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Don't forget to add the search tool.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. The community around your issue will learn to count on your research and information. This elevates you from just somebody with data to a service on which the rest of the community depends.

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Data API Mashup Contest 82

NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

. :). 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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2009

However, the growth of social media online offers a two way communication medium with opportunities for nonprofit organisations to build community, collective action, productivity, social and cultural capital and capacity.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. So much innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2007

This same platform would have a series of APIs, so that doctors offices, schools, universities, researchers, community groups, local businesses and anyone with an interest could build applications, mashups and widgets that could use the data for the long tail of citizen needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

When, on the other hand, amateurs had the opportunity to help design scientific questions or disseminate research results, they often felt more ownership of the project and greater interest in using scientific methods to address their own community needs.

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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. The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community.

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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. There is a comment in the post from Dan McQuillan who has been mulling over measurement of social media from the nonprofit perspective. celebration of shared sensations of change?

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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. If you're just reading about this project for the first time, here's the basic info: NTEN's Social Media curriculum project where the community is the curriculum ! 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.

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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 ! The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

Demetrio Maguigad , New Media Manager Community Media Workshop Almost two years ago,  I did a workshop with David Wilcox in Birmingham for LASA. I'm going to focus on external communications goals - and use the How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? You can find David's training games here.)  

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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 NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

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

MARCH 8, 2007

What if you could become part of an online community that contributes images of similar topics for you to consume? Community-Powered Campaigns. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. March of Dimes Contest (features community voting). Overview article from December NTEN newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Recently, I reconnected with colleague, Joitske Hulsebosch , who I met in 2005 through Nancy White's Online Community workshop. I did a mashup with social media framing. I interviewed Joitske about her work way back in 2006. I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Participating in your Community You listen and participate, but the most important thing is educate your users, partners, venders, anyone in business with you. More and better interaction With podcasting you can also have subscribers, cmments, cross-postings, episode ratings, community chats, and mashups and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Carie Lewis.

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Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2009

While the practice of using images to convey meaning is nothing new to humans, dating back to the earliest cave drawings, putting data into visual representations seems to have taken on a new life in this day and age where mashups are king on the internet. Below are some links to a great collection of data visualizations.

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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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Wiki Social Media Action Life 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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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

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitors live communities and the conversations they foster. You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. Give to communities and encourage idea sharing. This can inform.

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