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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.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Data Portability for Good

NTEN

The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. This elevates you from just somebody with data to a service on which the rest of the community depends.

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10 Disruptive Technologies You Need to Think About

NTEN

These services don't integrate right now, which makes managing them difficult -- and makes dealing with them a big waste of time for your staff. . Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. Is it OK to put client home address information into a public mapping website? Then came email. The same rules apply.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Say you want to track mentions of a particular public issue or news item. Photo sharing websites have been around for over a decade, but Flickr was one of the first photo sharing services to use keyword tags to encourage connections between photos and users. Enable public feedback on assignments. That means you can subscribe.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.