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Foursquare and Nonprofits: I want to Be The Mayor of Brooklyn Museum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They had their staff, local experts in the location, add tips about what was interesting for visitors in the neighborhood. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. In this first experiment, the Museum took advantage of the "tips" feature where users can leave tips about a location.

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

   They had their staff, local experts in the location, add tips about what was interesting for visitors in the neighborhood.  In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api.    It helped me wrap my brain around the potential value of something like FourSquare.

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Replacing Mobile Advertising with Real-Time Data

Amy Sample Ward

Qriously is super easy to use: you pick the type of question (two answer, slider, or star/rating), write your question and possible answers, select the location (global, regional or local – if you get a trial account, you are limited to global questions), and then how many answers you want to gather. That’s it!

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! While KaBOOM!

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

Tech Soup

several midwives used Ushahidi to self-organize and help pregnant women cope with being unable to make it to the hospital to deliver. Ushahidi's tools help others act for transparency, justice, crisis response, and human rights. TechSoup has been working since the 1980s to help nonprofits develop their technology capacity.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. spanhidden.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org.

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