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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. The device can also be plugged into solar power chargers, making it well-suited for fieldwork or rural environments. I first heard about this from Marnie Webb, who co-founded NetSquared.

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Personal Health Data: It’s Amazing Potential and Privacy Perils

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How scholarship is changing in a digital environment; The rights of those being served by nonprofits and civil society; Ethical dilemmas for civil society organizations using digital data and how to work through them; Ethical ways civil society and industry sources of digital data can work together. How long will this data be stored?

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Newsmastering for Professional Development 2.0 Dashboard: Online Community Management Aggregator and Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. Independent programmers have used the data to develop a range of innovative mashups an mobile apps, which the city lists in its App Showcase. What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups? and valuable ?

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Tags: issues socialchange strategy climate change earth day environment social media. So how do you cut through the noise, how do you sift through the random updates, how do you connect and engage?

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! Programs that are really complex, or which rely on tacit knowledge or specialized expertise, are harder to transfer to the online environment. And the results have been impressive.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), for instance, has used Ushahidi to document the impacts of oil spills and other petrochemical pollution on human health and the environment. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008.

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