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Mapping Web2.0 Censorship: Access Denied Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. The Access Denied Map does not pretend to be exhaustive.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing.

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Infographic: How Do Social Network Users Lean Politically?

Care2

As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. Predictive modeling was then used to map the politics of the social web.

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GIft Economies at MPS09

Amy Sample Ward

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. use the platform to increase local impact. use the platform to drive local social movement. Tags: case studies maps free gift economy health mps09 patientopinion. Increasing return systems are: digital. loosely coupled. intrinsically motivated.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. See Thomas Friedman? He has told me that he?s s vision for GEO is ?to

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. See Thomas Friedman? He has told me that he?s s vision for GEO is ?to

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Citizen journalism. Podcasting. Text messaging.