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2009 Golden Dot Awards: Voting is Open

NTEN

Oustanding Online Campaigns (National and local). Best Animation or Mashup . It looks like there are about 20 award categories, including: Technology Impact Moment. Online Politician of the Year. Best Candidate Blog. Best Mobile/SMS Campaign. Best Podcasting Series.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM!

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Ushahidi has developed multiple software tools now that are in use in well over 100 countries and dozens of local languages. Many organizations, including the United Nations, have used Ushahidi's crowdsourcing tools.

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

Tech Soup

We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. Many organizations including the United Nations have used Ushahidi's crowdsourcing tools to raise their voice. I was there that year and the competition was intense. So much innovation.

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 x 10 Ten NpTech Tagged Items About Social Media and Nonprofits That You Can Check Out in Ten Minutes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Don't forget to add the search tool.

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The Future of Supporter Data (Or, Is Your Data at a Middle School Dance?)

NTEN

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. Grab my mailing address and you can send more locally-focused messaging (or junk mail). By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Collect my cell and there is a 90% chance I open your text message. My email gives you 10-15% open rate.

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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. Maps Of The People, By The People, For The People - Map Kibera.

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