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Best Nonprofit Use of Google Maps and Flickr Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Flickr Mashup is pretty cool too. I have to point you over to Steve Bridger's post about the Full Stop Campaign. What level of technical skills does it take to do something like that? How did they measure their success?

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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Of course, the bottom line is that this makes it more likely that Google can get their ad platform onto phones. We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. The SDK will be available later this month.

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Social Media Strategy: United Methodist Church and 10THOUSANDDOORS

NetWits

What they’ve done is create a “social media mashup” – Google Friend Connect, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, iLike and more. The United Methodist Church recently launched a site with social media at its heart! Their new site goes far beyond a Facebook page or Twitter account. Why’d they take this approach you ask?

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Cool Mashup of GoogleMaps for Advocacy via Global s

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 visual representations of geographic data can help tell your organization's or cause's story? What are some ways that this could be used to enhance a nonprofit's program delivery?

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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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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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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009. You can also view uplifting visualizations, such as this Google graph of the state's unemployment rate. What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups?