Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Refuge Restrooms is a web application and a mobile app (Android and iOS) that crowdsources and maps locations of gender-neutral and trans-safe bathrooms. Sergio Medina, an attendee from the nonprofit Covenant House in Oakland, California said that events like these are a great way to get connected to the technology community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 6, 2008

For example, when I type in my zip code in Oakland, CA, it tells me, "Your electricity provider, Pacific Gas Electric Co., Track anyone who "Spreads the Word," or joins the Blogger's Challenge from your web page, or blog on your personal impact map. That's why iLoveMountains.org came up with the What's My Connection tool.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. Not so in Oakland. Mai-ling Garcia, the city of Oakland's online engagement manager, put it succinctly: "We're not here to build applications for you, we're here to build applications with you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. The second one is the Localization Mapping Project that shows on a GIS map all the different localization projects happening in the nine county region of the Bay Area as a tool that other people can plug into.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

Ola presents the giraffes in several ways--as individual images, statistically , on a map , even via a goofy game where you can view giraffes and guess the age of the people who made them. The constraints are clear and arbitrary. The language is personal, enthusiastic, and inclusive.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2014

Census map) with the most cities in the top 25 are: West – 8. Additionally, online donations grew by 31% from 2012 to 2013, from nearly $6.4 million to more than $8.3 million. . Most Generous Cities by Region: From a regional perspective, the West has the most cities in the top 25 with 8. The regions (based on the U.S. Midwest – 7.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

It provides a reasonably easy way for non-technical people to enter data into an online template or upload a spreadsheet to create interactive maps, tables, pie charts, and line graphs. Note that to imbed your interactive map or chart, your website must support iFrames. Creating our map actually gave us insight into the data we have.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

It provides a reasonably easy way for non-technical people to enter data into an online template or upload a spreadsheet to create interactive maps, tables, pie charts, and line graphs. Note that to imbed your interactive map or chart, your website must support iFrames. Creating our map actually gave us insight into the data we have.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. I think that's the most important thing, getting it on paper whether that be via a collage, a mind map, anything. She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We could literally take a map and then say, "OK, here are the 10 communities. graphic, or a map. What really, really turns me on in terms of journalism is what I would call networked journalism, which is where you can get a bunch of different people to break up a story into smaller, different bits. We do all kinds of multimedia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

The first post is by Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success. Women here in Oakland. This month, I'll be picking up the series again with new posts by Desiree Adaway , Emily Goligoski , Jamie Ridler , Jennifer Lee , Jennifer Louden , Mary Mulliken , Tara Sophia Mohr , and Wendy Harman.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products? What difference does a cup of Fair Trade coffee make? What is Starbucks relationship with Fair Trade?

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day. The SEEP site’s integrations also enable it to make use of effective interactive tools, like this map of member locations. Interactive tools.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. So we started in our small apartment in Oakland, it was about 750 square feet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. We say, one way to do that is to kind of focus on Oakland, and make sure that there are people who are being trained, who are peered, to be a part of this new green economy right here in Oakland.

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