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. Ushahidi: Mapping Reports Of Post-Election Violence In Kenya. A Mashup Of 29+ Social Action Platforms ??? Create Social Change. Social Actions.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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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. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Don’t create a strategy or even expect to use Twitter for the actions.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US. We had visitors from Drupal geeks to James Fallows at the Atlantic stop by DataMasher.org to create a custom data mash-up. These tools are easy to learn, and you can even create your own visualizations.

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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. The Ushahidi platform was created and deployed by this group in about three days. The information would be compiled and displayed in real time online on a map.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta.

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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. They have created a lot of ways for people to share, incorporating pictures as well.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

You're probably already busy trying to support email and calendaring on these devices, but you're going to have to start thinking about creating and deploying applications that allow your staff to use their phone as a mobile office. This means creating more automated systems for managing network resources. In other words, data sharing.

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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. This is similar to initiatives where museums create MySpace accounts, in that you are going to “where the people are.” There's the basic site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. We'll speak with experts about recent efforts to revolutionize the service space and see what gaps remain.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

A lot of museums--and web, radio, etc--are pursuing projects in which visitors share their personal stories around a topic, whether that be broad and profound ( storycorps.net ) or light and specific ( map mashup of Overheard in NY ). But back to my love of the internet. Holy schmoly. Yes, some of you are doing this --please, share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ???? t have to know how to create the code.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Create an account. Accessing sustainable food is easier with for mobile access to databases (Seafood Watch), delivery of hyper local foods (Spud.com), online links for farmers and buyers (Roots of Change), and maps of food grown in your neighborhood (Forage Oakland). I'll do another Get Out The Nonprofit Vote at SXSW Post each week).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

You can drag a literal splitter bar across the page and view a community-created site blinged out by the teens or the business site for funders and professionals. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ? What exciting mashups will our visitors create if we open up our collections data?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2007

In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries." Muslim relations. " A key message was.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. Collective intelligence creates a quilt of knowledge that many people can distribute. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping.

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