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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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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. The use of FourSquare fits in with its other experiments with mobile and playing with the idea of place.

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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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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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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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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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