Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Earlier this week, I had the terrific opportunity to participate on a panel at the US launch event for “Philanthropy and Social Media”, a whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy and The Indigo Trust. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Allied Airlift is made up of veterans and volunteers who scoured open source intelligence reports to provide Afghan allies with critical information necessary to find a place aboard one of the limited U.S. Air Force aircrafts evacuating people from Afghanistan. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. Her selection criteria. Here's here write up on word press. Meanwhile, across the pond, Susie muses about GIMP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Here’s an overview of the different types and some examples for each in philanthropy and doing. (1) Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. 2) Crowd Creation. How did they measure impact?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Keisha recommends Nicole Wallace’s Chronicle of Philanthropy piece: “ Visualizing Data Helps Charities Get Attention ” and its companion “ Nonprofit Data Visualization Gallery ” The Microsoft and Google map services are significant big data sharers. Big Data in Disaster Relief. MicroMappers. Image: IBM.

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