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Master Mashup: Viral Marketing from Bob Dylan

Museum 2.0

He or she has created one of the most innovative, enjoyable mashups out of a cultural icon. What's a mashup? One fun example is overplot , a mashup that takes quotes overheard in New York City ( the data ) and places them on a Google map (the tool), so you can browse the quotations by address.

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Fundraising Ideas

Tech Soup

Make it fun and easy. Make your fundraising event unusual or fun. Think battle of the bands, a concert, a DJ mashup, or a party that people will pay to attend or have a karaoke night where attendees not only pay to participate but can donate to see your staff sing! Host a dinner or breakfast.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

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. On July 5 the real fun began. Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter.

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. Here's how it works: Here's a Foursquare Flashmob deal (you don't have to be a Foursquare user to participate in the group discount, but if you are, it adds to the fun!): They're running it in connection with a show promotion.

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. WHY did I remove ???Non Non Commercial???

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Hello We Are Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Josh Leo's Video Mashup We R The Media. Okay, back to the content and the fun work in the morning - thanks everyone! Last week a group of lawyers representing a forthcoming book told us they didn't want us using same for the name NTEN's project. Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz.

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Data Portability for Good

NTEN

Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus! Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services. Once your data is in the wild, all kinds of things can be done.

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