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). I did a session on technology that does social good but doesn't make money, and got a dynamic group to show up.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Here are a few examples: District of Columbia's Data Catalog : The District has opened up 405 data sets across multiple agencies. Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009. What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

For an idea of what they're looking for, check out these examples of projects already using the Social Actions API: 'Related Ways to Take Action' WordPress Plugin : A plugin you can add to any WordPress.org blog that identifies the keywords of each blog posts and then displays related ways to take action. social actions mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.  In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

For example, using Social Actions (which aggregates actionable opportunities from across the web), you could pull all of the actions related to your organization’s specific environmental focus and push them out via Twitter or your website, and so on. This is a great example of providing a real, authentic voice to a global issue.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions. Search for any phrase.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

One of Sunlight Labs’ early entries is their Recovery.gov mashup. Another example is. Now, even the newest for-profit applications can turn heads by utilizing this new advanced technology.The non-profit sector has started to experiment with augmented reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Here's a few examples of web apps already created by Social Actions : 'Related Ways to Take Action' WordPress Plugin : A plugin you can add to any WordPress.org blog that identifies the keywords of each blog posts and then displays related ways to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

& Rachel shared some great examples of social media advocacy campaigns. Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).& & The rest of the panelists included Rachel Weidinger, Erin Denny, and Michaela Hackner.&

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

For example, during a severe snowstorm on the East Coast of the U.S., We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. So much innovation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2009

Many find the the social media space a little overwhelming as it is clear the landscape changes on a daily basis and is filled with strange terms, for example what is astroturfing and what exactly is a mashup - does it have anything to do with mash potatoes ?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

During the Webinar with Michael Hughes of See3, the question of fair use came up, specifically around the mashup that was made to promote NTEN video content. Specifically, since the mashup uses clips from a copyrighted Frank Capra film, is this a copyright violation or an example of fair use ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It was created to celebrate the launch of a new Twitter mashup that makes it super easy to share actions with your friends: (it also works with Facebook!): [link]. Paul Young's analysis of what worked, what didn't in his fundraising campaign can give you some hints of what to measure. What's missing from this list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! So: what other examples have you seen of innovative approaches to scaling social impact? is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. " Map Kibera is a stellar example of "public participation GIS" -- involving a community in the creation of a map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

A List of Examples. he Hold The Sign Meme : Examples of different campaigns on flickr. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Example of Technical Support How To. Community-Powered Campaigns. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

"    Use of Points When Selecting Tools:   He only gives participants a choice of 18 tools and it is a wide range (more technical tools like Drupal, Joombla, and Mashups), but they have a budget of 10 points - so this naturally leads to a discussion of priorities.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I did a mashup with social media framing. For example, if an organization does work online with board can it be effective or I used to say, "a dysfunctional board offline is dysfunctional online." I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities. " Map Kibera is a stellar example of "public participation GIS" -- involving a community in the creation of a map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. But the real story is much more complicated. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

   Gave an example of a blogger outreach program where they gave bloggers a product - solar powered batter recharger.     Example ComcastCares on Twitter.  Gave examples of how people could use social media to leverage Hawaiin tourism. Social media makes things visible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Here’s a brief definition and cultural example of each: • In contributory projects, users are solicited to provide limited and specified objects, actions, or ideas to an institutionally controlled process. Online, this may mean participants creating their own mashups or using organizational data to construct visualizations.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Here's a few (good) examples of how I have remixed other people's work or other people have remixed my work. The cover is from a remix mashup. There was a brilliant example of remix from Morgan Scully who took the idea and remixed it for electronic musicians. Remix This Powerpoint. to Change The World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! An example? Another example. Here's an example from the Red Cross. So, now is the fun part. This can inform.

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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? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mashups make me want to sing! Here's a very simple example: You may have a goal of distributing 10,000 copies of a report via your web site. Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., For example, if you have determined that you need a CRM solution, you need to understand how you are going to facilitate your business processes through the system. Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g.,

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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. Create a twitter map mashup of the museum and combine staff, automatic, and guest tweets to generate a dynamic, real-time view of what’s happening at the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection to one another.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

For example, I enjoy following the discussion in EDS's Next Big Thing blog. A mashup isn't cool just because it uses data from different services - does the service provide real value? Tagging, for example, is not a technology at all - it's just a program feature. I'm not the only one wary of the buzz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session. Alan Levine, CogdogBlog, invented the term and also has some excellent examples here.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Feature Set- Instant online examples of Qgiv’s functionality iPhone App Demo- Examples of how supporters of your organization can become mobile fundraisers through mobile phone applications. Sage in booth 18.

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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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