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DataMasher a Winner at the White House Too

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We were also humbled by this laudatory blog post on whitehouse.gov by Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Today, we celebrate the ingenuity of the American people with the announcement of Datamasher.org as the winner of the Apps for America contest.

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Data Portability for Good

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Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Because data is powerful!

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.)

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. The cover is from a remix mashup. Attributor Corporation and Creative Commons have just launched FairShare which is now in public beta. The FairShare service enters public beta supporting six Creative Commons licenses.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Say you want to track mentions of a particular public issue or news item. Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. Enable public feedback on assignments. Examples of Mashups. Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics. Who Is Sick?

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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