Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. I have dreams of applications that combine, say, available bed space in shelters and soup kitchens, all mapped for people to find.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. Here's how it works: Here's a Foursquare Flashmob deal (you don't have to be a Foursquare user to participate in the group discount, but if you are, it adds to the fun!) They're running it in connection with a show promotion.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

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. Sharing your data with others leverages experts inside and outside the organization to further your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits need to work less as isolated institutions and more as networks. At Monitor Institute we are interested in “emerging practices” in the social sector—including new more networked ways of working. Like many nonprofits working in more networked ways, KaBOOM!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. " Ushahidi won the challenge in 2008, receiving $25,000 to support and expand its work. The information would be compiled and displayed in real time online on a map. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

This graphic is a mashup of Priscilla Brisbane's illustration of Levels of Engagement in advocacy campaigns with this blog post from the Social Organization's blog about how how business relationships and how technology helps or hinders. I wonder if you can map specific tools to specific stages? What techniques?

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

When all your desktop users are working in a virtualized environment, supporting your staff becomes a whole different ballgame. Gartner noted that client virtualization is still pretty new, though, and there are kinks to work out. . Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. AND, it's the green thing to do.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Amazon S3, Google Checkout, Google Maps, PayPal). Before you leap into the cloud, you're going to have to do some leg work. Try to envision how everything will work together. Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mashups make me want to sing! It's all about mapping data to business needs to make better decisions. So if you're actually making better decisions, you should save a heck of a lot of time over the long haul by not implementing things that just don't work. For BI to work, you need good data. Definitions.

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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. If the map were just of the museum I was about to visit, I would be compelled and excited by the perception of action and interaction of folks and exhibits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. What are these new competitions about—are they working? How does it work? At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. Let's discuss: join us!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. How about Digg ? he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Accessing sustainable food is easier with for mobile access to databases (Seafood Watch), delivery of hyper local foods (Spud.com), online links for farmers and buyers (Roots of Change), and maps of food grown in your neighborhood (Forage Oakland). Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. With snacks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. An excellent first small step is to just identify the blogs that are hosting those conversations on the topics that interest you or inform your work. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work. the work of copyright holders.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. How about Digg ? he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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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. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2007

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.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2011

I cannot even imagine the amount of work it took to bring together the coalition of organizations, legislators, volunteers, celebrities, voters, passionate constituents and dollars to pass this bill. I hope you all are celebrating like crazy because you deserve it!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Doing a google map mashup of data in Drupal. Working with getting flickr photostreams to show in Drupal. I’d also have to cough up $50/year to get a google account that has the SSO API, but it might be worth it. Drupal sidebar connecting with the NPR API - perhaps to provide a targeted news stream?

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