Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 21, 2006
Check out the Tunisian Prison Map. Tunisian exile Sami Ben Gharbia is the creator of the Tunisian Prison Map -- an idea inspired by a New York Times interactive map charting murder locations. The map is compelling and provocative, and it's one more reason Gharbia, who now lives in the Hague, says he can't go home.
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 27, 2010
Where did the idea for OpenAction begin? 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. We were both doing similar, but separate mapping initiatives.
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Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 8, 2011
it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! The data on these maps shows the number of responses as well as the direction of response, where orange = “data&# and blue = “friends&#.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 29, 2010
" Other ideas include a special Museum badge. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. " I like the idea of leveraging a networked effect of the swarm badge. I stumbled upon this engaging YouTube video that Steppenwolf.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 17, 2006
One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. I have dreams of applications that combine, say, available bed space in shelters and soup kitchens, all mapped for people to find.
Tech Soup
APRIL 19, 2016
Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. I for one lost one year, but made a ton of connections and got great advice/input on what was then just a rough idea. The next year the idea got a little less rough and I entered again. and that year we came in second.
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 22, 2009
The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. There are TONS of climate activisits and organizations on Twitter - spreading news, policy alerts, new developments, and ideas. How is social media being deployed to connect the Green Movement?
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