Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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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. Tags: NPTech change the web NTEN web2.0

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US. You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services.

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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. Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. The cover is from a remix mashup. That photo is one of my most viewed flickr photos and resulted in a number of inquiries for work. Tags: creativecommons. It provides a huge return on investment. It gets your work out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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