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Best Nonprofit Use of Google Maps and Flickr Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Flickr Mashup is pretty cool too. I have to point you over to Steve Bridger's post about the Full Stop Campaign. What level of technical skills does it take to do something like that? How did they measure their success?

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Cool Mashup of GoogleMaps for Advocacy via Global s

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. What are some ways that this could be used to enhance a nonprofit's program delivery? in New York City.

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

Tech Soup

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. So much innovation.

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Replacing Mobile Advertising with Real-Time Data

Amy Sample Ward

It’s so easy to use, and has so much potential for the nonprofit sector, that I couldn’t wait any longer to show it to you! it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! Qriously for Nonprofits. And the results?

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. I intend to be there, and listen in, and take notes, and post my opinions about the zen of APIs for nonprofits.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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