Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1.

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Database Map Global Project 52

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet. We were both doing similar, but separate mapping initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2010

View California Coast Trip in a larger map This holiday rather than working, we decided to take a brief vacation and travel down the beautiful California coast. Only problem was by Christmas night we realized that we hadn't even opened. Tags: crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I received an embargoed press release in my email about Convio's Open Initiative. While I wouldn't know an API from Ape if it stood right in front of me beat its chest, but I have seen the results of open APIs in social media apps like Flickr. The most recent announcement is from Convio, which launched Convio Open. open API???

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2009

PHILANTHROPY 2173: Mapping the social economy - Great blog post on using design for philanthropy. If you like visualizing inforamation and maps, check it out. Map it, mash it up and otherwise make use of this unparalleled online resource. Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from April 14th.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Community Mapping. Community Mapping helps you identify not just the various segments of your audience, but also create a clear picture of which tools/platforms are associated with those groups and which messages are best to target where. Here are two great resources to get you started: unconference and open space technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

open stack. how do you get everyone to open up? create maps of communication streams. get your privacy and permission policies and proceses aligned with an open strategy. get your privacy and permission policies and proceses aligned with an open strategy. Contacts - who you know? Activities - what do you do?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

That’s right, the session selection process is open for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference ! Voting will be open through September 30th. We’ll invite three participants to serve as case studies, break up into small groups and collectively map out an online strategy. Vote today! Fundraising. Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

I'm going to be teaching two intermediate/advanced workshops, one on mapping metrics to social media strategy and the other on listening. (The So the point is that if you are going to jump off the social media cliff, make sure your parachute opens. Last year, I gave the keynote and a workshop, and this year they invited me back again.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Recipients receive a map, fact sheet, an adoption certificate, and a subscription to Nature Conservancy magazine. Be the Change Gifts by MercyCorps: Givers can buy gifts that educate AIDs orphans, help women open businesses, or even purchase composting kits and cookstoves for in the developing world. Tags: Online Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

Meetup Everywhere is “an open and free internet platform for sparking Meetups everywhere about something. I think there’s a lot of potential for hyper local search and the power that comes with geo-tags/data. Tags: community otherblogs resources global hyperlocal local ssir tools. Meetup Everywhere.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

The program guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. As conservationists progress through these steps, Miradi helps them define the scope of their project and design conceptual models and spatial maps of their sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open! " » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis. Submissions close January 22, 2010."

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

made me think again about the open-ended topic Ashoka posed in it’s “Blog your way to Hyderabad&# competition announcement: the interconnection between technology, invention and social change. Tags: interview issues. Invention, Technology and Social Change: What’s driving you? Find out more about the conference here.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For example, if a nonprofit wants to raise awareness and engage volunteers for a neighborhood clean-up, they could drop a pin on the map around their planned location and target people who live in the area with an interest in the environment. Now when you open Facebook on your phone, you’re greeted with three icons: Live, Photo and Check In.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Gamasutra has a feature up entitled Game Design Essentials: 20 Open World Games. In it, John Harris provides a whirlwind tour through arcades, Ataris, and Nintendos, discussing the design principles and evolution of video games described as “open world” or “exploration." And now, back to Game Friday. There are surprises in store.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

If you want to be see photos being posted to flickr via a moving and zooming map interface, check out flickrvision - it rhymes with twittervision. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. Here's one that showed up in the NpTech Tag Stream: Doodle.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. This is an awesome cross-platform mind mapping tool.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Here are a few examples: District of Columbia's Data Catalog : The District has opened up 405 data sets across multiple agencies. Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009. One suggestion, Vancouver: add a crime map. Tags: Government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

This comes in the form of maps or other creative ways to see our networks. This tools like a good match for organizations that have the networked mindeset - value self-organizing and open participation. Tags: maps mobile working wikily. I've come across three different tools that embed these principles.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2010

You can see the embeded versions of the tool on my blog here and here , or you can see examples on the original site for the SXSWi session, Net2 Open Space session, Community Building session, or the Online Campaigning session. Or, for use in campaigns, either for those wanting to track a campaign or as part of the public-facing campaign map.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Donations via text messages , tweeting real-time updates , mapping need and resources : all examples of stories that captured our sector's attention and got people talking about mobile. Tags: Mobile net neutrality NPTech tmobile Communications. Since the earthquake in Haiti, we've seen an explosion in interest for all things mobile.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2007

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. Michael also has a really interesting map of the nonprofit technology space. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07

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NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Rock on open data and mapping! Upcoming 501 Tech Club Events: Long Island: May 5th, Syosset: Two Speakers: Open Source Software, and HIPPA Requirements. Members are in bold.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. Citizen journalism. Podcasting. Text messaging.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This new free online data visualization and mapping tool demonstrates the value of applying technology to philanthropy, in this case, creating a place to find out how and where foundations are supporting U.S. To quote an overly used advertising tag line: know the gaps. Nonprofit Technology Funding for Democracy: The Problem.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

FlowingData has mapped the growth of WalMart across the U.S. The CTC Vista Project has opened its annual application cycle. Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter Things We Like. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Forum One created all of the site's branding elements, developed the site's information architecture, designed its visual look, and built the site using Drupal, a leading open-source content management system. Additionally, a user can view maps for individual counties, such as Fairfax County , Va., See Virginia's table.)

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Forum One is working for GDN to help extend the impact of the annual face-to-face event by better connecting the 300+ attendees, and better open up the event to non-attendees around the world. See the participants map of the world. Technorati Tag: GDNET09. Tags: Strategy. Watch video of actual conference sessions.

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