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Mashups with Social Impact for the NetSquared Mashup Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.

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Lame spam of the day: spam mashup

Robert Weiner

Another newbie spammer playing with a toy? This plain-text spam has no sender, subject, formatting, or graphics. Nothing unusual there. The bonus is that it mashes up a variety of spammer techniques, starting with a list of 3-letter words running from "act" to "dry".

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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme.

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Win $10,000: Netsquared/Network for Good Donate Now Mashup Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How would you mashup the Network for Good donation processing service with other services to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money online? Submit your ideas to the DonateNow Mashup Challenge sponsored by the Case Foundation by May 19.

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Vote in NetSquared’s Mashup Challange | Beaconfire Wire

Allegiance Group

Maybe » Vote in NetSquared’s Mashup Challange Posted Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 1:16 pm by John Brian (91 posts) Voting ends tomorrow for NetSquared’s Mashup Challange, a competition to find great mashups for social change. Share and Enjoy: Categories: Web 2.0. You can follow responses through the RSS 2.0

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Gmap-Pedometer Mashup | Beaconfire Wire

Allegiance Group

Since this is a pedometer mashup, you can plot the points you walk or jog on the map, enter your weight, and the application will tell you how many calories you have burnt in the process. While the mashup is built for avid walkers and joggers, an interesting side benefit is that it can answer those distance questions you have always had.

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NetSquared Mashup Challenge: How Do You Combine Data for Social Change?

Have Fun - Do Good

We're hosting a contest called the NetSquared Mashup Challenge that I wanted to let you know about, and am hoping that you'll pass on to social changemakers and web innovators in your community. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Mashups are great. But I think 2009 will see a more refined world of mashups take over. We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. I love them!

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Best Nonprofit Use of Google Maps and Flickr Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Flickr Mashup is pretty cool too. I have to point you over to Steve Bridger's post about the Full Stop Campaign. What level of technical skills does it take to do something like that? How did they measure their success?

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Vote for Genocide Intervention Network’s Netsquared Mashup | Non-Profit Tech Blog

Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

3358 2 Comments [link] Vote+for+Genocide+Intervention+Network%27s+Netsquared+Mashup 2008-03-24+19%3A06%3A08 Allan+Benamer 48) { this.width = 48; this.height = 48; } ; if (this.width On 03.24.08 You have until 8 PM EDT tonight to vote. Ivan Boothe said: Thanks so much Allan! We really appreciate your support.

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Mashups: Marshall Kirkpatrick Interviewed by Robin Good

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Anyway, there is a terrific video interview of Marshall and text transcript over at Master New Media where Marshall talks about Mashups. I took that photo of Marshall at the NTC in Seattle last year when I finally met him face-to-face! ve been thinking about widgets, relative to mash ups, lately.

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Cool Mashup of GoogleMaps for Advocacy via Global s

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you click on a place-mark on Gharbia's Google Maps mashup, a pop-up reveals details, stories and videos of prisoners and their families. What visual representations of geographic data can help tell your organization's or cause's story? What are some ways that this could be used to enhance a nonprofit's program delivery?

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NetSquared Mashup Challenge: 120+ Mashups for Social Change - ReadWriteWeb

AFP Blog

NetSquared Mashup Challenge: 120+ Mashups for Social Change - ReadWriteWeb: "Netsquared is a project of the larger organization Compumentor, where you'll also find related work being done at TechSoup.org.

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NetCentric Advocacy: Barack Obollywood: I Love web2.0 mashups

Network-Centric Advocacy

mashups Wow. mashups : Comments Barack Obollywood: I Love web2.0 mashups Wow. Home Green Media Toolshed Profile Twitter Shared Links Subscribe Archives « Communicaiton Coordination in the middle of Choas | Main | The list and the network: New politial organizing » January 10, 2008 Barack Obollywood: I Love web2.0

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup. And, since I'm so much a visual learner I had to diagram what he was saying before I can understand it. So, Allan, did I get it right? Update: See Ben's Comment over here. Pointers To Context To All This. Michele Martin's NpTech Search.

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Tom says "mergers and alliances" - we say "mashups and.

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

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Social Media Strategy: United Methodist Church and 10THOUSANDDOORS

NetWits

What they’ve done is create a “social media mashup” – Google Friend Connect, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, iLike and more. The United Methodist Church recently launched a site with social media at its heart! Their new site goes far beyond a Facebook page or Twitter account. Why’d they take this approach you ask?

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Master Mashup: Viral Marketing from Bob Dylan

Museum 2.0

He or she has created one of the most innovative, enjoyable mashups out of a cultural icon. What's a mashup? One fun example is overplot , a mashup that takes quotes overheard in New York City ( the data ) and places them on a Google map (the tool), so you can browse the quotations by address.

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Twitter + Flickr = Twitterfountain

Wild Apricot

Engage your audiences, help supporters of your non-profit keep up with any tagged topic on Twitter and Flickr, or publicize your event with a custom Twitterfountain , a nifty new mashup you can embed on your blog or website — Have you ever wanted to see what was happening at that one event you could not go to?

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Look, A Sprout Widget for MashUps! What?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector :: Tom says "mergers and alliances" - we say "mashups and interoperability." Let's think of ourselves as interoperable allies.

AFP Blog

Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector :: Tom says "mergers and alliances" - we say "mashups and interoperability." Let's think of ourselves as interoperable allies.: "I I recently had a very lively conversation with Tom McLaughlin of the Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Disney Mashup on Fairuse and Copyright

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click here to play. via Amalyah Keshet and Wired Magazine " Hijacked Disney Characters Explain Copyright " The ten minute movie, directed by Eric Faden , came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program.

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Toobla, new tool to check out!

NCE Social Media

Users can also create their own mashups of their favorite content, putting multiple things into a single widget which they can post to their blog, MySpace, Facebook or any site online.

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Finally! Ordnance Survey lets people do mashups with its maps | Technology | Guardian Unlimited

AFP Blog

Ordnance Survey lets people do mashups with its maps | Technology | Guardian Unlimited: "Normally we keep stuff about the Free Our Data campaign to its own blog, but some things are worth mentioning here too. Such as Ordnance Survey, the UK's mapping agency, which today announced that it is launching its OpenSpace project for wider use.

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NetCentric Advocacy: Mashup: Dont Fight the Internet : Advocacy and Political Organizing

Network-Centric Advocacy

Home Green Media Toolshed Profile Twitter Shared Links Subscribe Archives « Yahoo launches citizen journalism site | Main | Disconnected Movement: Connected Personal Life » January 03, 2007 Mashup: Dont Fight the Internet : Advocacy and Political Organizing This Link: Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again.

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Wild Apricot Blog : How Non-Profits Can Use Mashups

Wild Apricot

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Social Actions’ Change The Web Challenge in Oxford

Amy Sample Ward

Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. Learn about the Open Actions XML micro format, and how you can use it. Test-drive submitted applications to the Change The Web Challenge. Brainstorm opportunities for online campaigners. This afternoon’s event is free to attend !Please

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Swag/Flickr Photo Contest Mashup: I Love It!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in flickr. Creative Commons is running a Flickr Contest encouraging people to use their photographic skills to support Creative Commons. The official rules are here. What a great idea! Technorati Tags: nptech.

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Congrats to the NetSquared Winners!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The last leg of the journey was to attend the Netsquared Conference (N2Y3) where three winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge were selected by conference participants. A Mashup Of 29+ Social Action Platforms ??? There were two winners announced for the Case Foundation DonateNow Mashup Challenge : Social Actions ???

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DataMasher a Winner at the White House Too

Forum One

Then you can share them with your friends and comment on the mashups of others. A few interesting mashups include: High School Graduation vs. Guns in Household , % Total Population in Prison , and: People per US Representative. Datamasher allows you to take two different public data sources and mash them up with an operator (+ - * /).

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Tech Soup Blog

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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YOU Can Bring These Dreams To Life— Nonprofit Blog Carnival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos. Penelope Rivas, Communications and Social Media Intern at Volunteer Match, shares her dream for nonprofits to execute more daring and audacious social media marketing campaigns.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter.

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Newsmastering for Professional Development 2.0 Dashboard: Online Community Management Aggregator and Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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Changing the world, one sxsw session at a time

Allegiance Group

Expose Yourself: Create a Design career Mashup. Eve Simon, Lawrence Swiader, Traci Sym, Maria Giudice. Change Happens: Improv For An Unpredictable World. Jordan & Amanda Hirsch. Eve Simon & Stephen P Anderson. Our Partners & Clients: How to Make Social Media Work for Social Good. Amanda Lehner, Ad Council.

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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There were people already doing cool stuff, like InSTEDD and some great work around mashups of humanitarian data in Afghanistan, as well as folks discussing lauching cool new social enterprises (but we can't talk about them yet). I did a session on technology that does social good but doesn't make money, and got a dynamic group to show up.

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Web2.0 Adoption from Business Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While it didn't include tagging, it did include mashups; the other five were the same. It found that social networking was actually the most popular tool, with 19% of companies having invested in it, followed by podcasts (17%), blogs (16%), RSS (14%), wikis (13%), and mashups (4%). McKinsey also looked at six tools. hat tip Seb Chan

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup Blog

Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

Independent programmers have used the data to develop a range of innovative mashups an mobile apps, which the city lists in its App Showcase. What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups? Tell us in the comments.