Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We're seeing exciting trends in governments making data more available ? Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. And they're doing it in ways that allow people to build web applications on top of the data. But local and state governments are also setting their data free.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. To learn more about it, I caught up with Peter earlier this week to get all the details and am excited to share them here first!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Anyway, there is a terrific video interview of Marshall and text transcript over at Master New Media where Marshall talks about Mashups. I've been researching widgets recently and the last section of the interview covers that: Marshall Kirkpatrick : I???ve ve been thinking about widgets, relative to mash ups, lately. RG: What???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

What visual representations of geographic data can help tell your organization's or cause's story? When you click on a place-mark on Gharbia's Google Maps mashup, a pop-up reveals details, stories and videos of prisoners and their families. What are some ways that this could be used to enhance a nonprofit's program delivery?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. Data silos also create problems. Whether it’s data or dances, silos keep people separated at the party. An organization that owns its data and manages it correctly owns its distribution channels.

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Data Support Synchronous Mashup 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

He or she has created one of the most innovative, enjoyable mashups out of a cultural icon. What's a mashup? speak, it's a web application that combines data from more than one source to create a new tool. This mashup turns a simple list of quotes into a geographically browsable conversation.

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Mashup Marketing New York City Museum 20

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. It ended up winning the competition, $5,000 and lots of exposure.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Datamasher.org provides the public with a simple interface to mash up government datasets to analyze and visualize the data in innovative ways. Datamasher allows you to take two different public data sources and mash them up with an operator (+ - * /). Then you can share them with your friends and comment on the mashups of others.

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Mashup Contest America Press 52

AFP Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Ordnance Survey lets people do mashups with its maps | Technology | Guardian Unlimited: "Normally we keep stuff about the Free Our Data campaign to its own blog, but some things are worth mentioning here too. This ties in with our story in today's Technology.

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Mashup Map Survey People 20

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

There were people already doing cool stuff, like InSTEDD and some great work around mashups of humanitarian data in Afghanistan, as well as folks discussing lauching cool new social enterprises (but we can't talk about them yet). One sample session was the one on the Google Book Settlement, led by Pam Samuelson of UC Berkeley.

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Afghanistan Michigan Amazon Mashup 133

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

Here's the lowdown: Apps for America will award developers for the best applications, based on data from Sunlight and its partners, that make Congress more accountable, interactive, and transparent. > " Duh: the NTEN community! > Learn more about the contest at [link]. The grand prize is $15,000.

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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. Below are some links to a great collection of data visualizations.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Along with its original crisis mapping work, now called Ushahidi Tracker , Ushahidi has developed new mapping and data management tools. TechSoup has made some of Ushahidi's new data management tools available to nonprofits, including Ushahidi Surveyor and Ushahidi Responder. It puts one type of data on a map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. Integrate with Foursquare by pulling their data into your primary database of record – building an even more holistic view of your constituents by adding the location and preference data from Foursquare. Track volunteering efforts.

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YouTube Badge Museum Mashup 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

Carr reports that some hard data is coming out this week on the adoption of Web 2.0 While it didn't include tagging, it did include mashups; the other five were the same. via Nicholas Carr's Rough Type Blog. tools by companies: Forrester released some results from a December 2006 survey of 119 CIOs at mid-size and larger companies.

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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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AFP Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

How Non-Profits are Exploring Augmented Reality Tech: "Augmented reality promises a new level of interaction between people and data. One of Sunlight Labs’ early entries is their Recovery.gov mashup. Another example is.

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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. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The organization continues to develop new tools, including data-gathering apps and new tools like the Ping App. Ushahidi got its start in early 2008.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Disruptive Technology #2: Data Deluge. You know how I feel about data. Data, when handled properly, becomes intelligence -- and intelligence makes us better at our jobs, which makes the world a better place! First, they need to focus on data storage. IT managers will also have to figure out data de-duplication.

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Gartner Technology Virtual Phone 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2007

It would be mobile compatible with data in/out abilities. 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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Government API Mashup License 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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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. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

When participants collected data, they learned a great deal about data collection processes but not so much about the overall scientific method. In contributory projects, participants collect data in a scientist-controlled process. Scientists design the test questions, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

Make a note of the less obvious benchmark s (such as SEO rankings and referrals, customer satisfaction scores and other business data). . His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. Make a note of ROI benchmarks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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News Open Google Open Source 100

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

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The company I work for, TheWebService.com&# , has created a new form of data storage, called “MyTables&# – it’s not open source, and it doesn’t use MySQL, but it is a very convenient and quick way of uploading and managing your own data. Non Profits should never feel that their data is being held hostage.

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Open Source Open API Software 100

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 ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Everybody thought it was amazing that you could have everything -- hardware, software, and data -- on a server under your desk. Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Companies such as Amazon.com and Salesforce.com spend millions on infrastructure to secure your data.

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Jordan Application Amazon Mashup 74

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. That’s good news.

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Web API Open Source NTEN 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change? Can you imagine a way to combine data that would increase awareness around an issue? 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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

We're hosting a contest called the NetSquared Mashup Challenge that I wanted to let you know about, and am hoping that you'll pass on to social changemakers and web innovators in your community. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Mashup Netsquared Challenge San Jose 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Cultural institutions are increasingly developing APIs and linked-data repositories. Data, Data, Everywhere: Drowning in a Sea of Analytics . We have basic metadata but the richness of object records is so varied that it ultimately limits use of collections information. Who are these for? And what can we build with them?

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Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies. concepts are focused on using data dynamically but in a pull fashion. A mashup isn't cool just because it uses data from different services - does the service provide real value?

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