Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Are mapping and geographic information systems possible and affordable? * Email us at info@humaninet.org if you would like to participate. Attend the DevSummit on February 21-23 in Oakland. Among the topics to be addressed at the Summit: * What software and other ICTs do field users need in a disaster response?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. The second one is the Localization Mapping Project that shows on a GIS map all the different localization projects happening in the nine county region of the Bay Area as a tool that other people can plug into.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We could literally take a map and then say, "OK, here are the 10 communities. I would love to do an info. graphic, or a map. What really, really turns me on in terms of journalism is what I would call networked journalism, which is where you can get a bunch of different people to break up a story into smaller, different bits.

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