Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Finalists were invited to present in person to the NetSquared community at a one-day conference.

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Netsquared Challenge Tech Nepal 36

Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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Benefit Public Develop Tools 36

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Though my high school calculus class actually made me break out in hives -- it was the most stressful experience of my life -- I adore data. I would marry a good data visualization. Mashups make me want to sing! I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. That's when data becomes intelligence. .

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Business Gartner Data NTEN 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Cultural institutions are increasingly developing APIs and linked-data repositories. Data, Data, Everywhere: Drowning in a Sea of Analytics .

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Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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Mashup Netsquared Challenge San Jose 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Adding a new data point to it. Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. Examples of Mashups. Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics.

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