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. This GreenLiving article asks, “Have Facebook, Twitter and Web 2.0 You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network.

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Green Mashup Aggregator Org 102

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The team conceived "DataMasher" -- a web app that allows users to "mash up" two sets of state data. The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US. Data is the next buzz-word after Web 2.0. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus! Fosters innovation.

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Data API Mashup Contest 82

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate.

Museum 20

Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Now, with cloud computing, all of these pieces live online and are readily available to you from any web-enabled device (giving you more legroom under your desk). Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook). Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., What's in the Cloud.

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Jordan Application Amazon Mashup 74

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

There's twittervision , twitter's most popular mashup, which shows tweets (twitter entries) real-time on a global map. And many more mashups and applications available here. This means that you can broadcast messages to a group of friends/followers from your phone, your IM service, or the web, and can receive messages similarly.

Museum 20

Museum Twitter Mashup Broadcast 20

Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.

Influence 52

Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Business Opportunities Web Blog Network. So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20!

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Change: Examining Competitions For Social Change: Organizations, foundations, even individuals are creating social innovation competitions, hoping to drive social change projects and solutions into the global marketplace. Learn from innovators how to leverage the web for good! Identity trends on the Social Web. Sl’ack-Ti-vism.

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Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mashups make me want to sing! Here's a very simple example: You may have a goal of distributing 10,000 copies of a report via your web site. It's all about mapping data to business needs to make better decisions. I want to eat statistics for dinner. I would marry a good data visualization. That's data, not intelligence. .

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Business Gartner Data NTEN 54

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

A lot of museums--and web, radio, etc--are pursuing projects in which visitors share their personal stories around a topic, whether that be broad and profound ( storycorps.net ) or light and specific ( map mashup of Overheard in NY ). I thought my web journey ended there. But back to my love of the internet.

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Open Source Storytelling Interview Collaboration 20

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Mashup Netsquared Challenge San Jose 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing is defined broadly as: The process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

But, in any event, by the end of an hour or so of hacking, I’d turned a template that I found online at Open Web Design into a Drupal template. I’m making a list of little(ish) projects that I want to do - sort of like problems I think I want to know how to solve. Doing a google map mashup of data in Drupal.

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Drupal Project Module Mashup 100