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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

The team also hopes to incentivize organizations to share knowledge and give beneficiaries a direct voice. 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.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. connecting organizations for shared knowledge, partnerships and coalitions. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network.

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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. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Noodling Around Change Management and Social Media Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did a mashup with social media framing. Lucy Bernhol z, who shares my interest in contextualization, pointed me to this essay about artifacts and change describing the change brought about by the introduction of the typewriter into the workplace. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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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. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge.