Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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. 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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MARCH 20, 2008

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. Skip to content Clients Services Portfolio About Us Contact Blog Home > Blog Recent Posts 07/16/2010: The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man 07/12/2010: Is your online campaign going to succeed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

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. Winners in each category will be awarded a $10,000 prize by a panel of judges present at the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3).

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

MARCH 24, 2008

Pipes (1) Genocide Intervention Network , Ivan Boothe , Netsquared contest Vote for Genocide Intervention Network’s Netsquared Mashup 03.24.08 | 3358 2 Comments [link] Vote+for+Genocide+Intervention+Network%27s+Netsquared+Mashup 2008-03-24+19%3A06%3A08 Allan+Benamer Ivan Boothe has asked me to vote for Genocide Intervention Project’s mashup via Facebook so I shall and I’m asking you to consider doing so as well.

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MARCH 19, 2008

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. These are all great organizations (I used to work for NetSquared) that deserve the attention and support of the larger tech community.Readers interested in nonprofit tech should also check out

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 12, 2006

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. Then I am afraid you will have to find your own reason to play with the Gmap-Pedometer Mashup. :) Share and Enjoy: Categories: Cool Tools and Tips.

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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. 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. Another example is ilovemountains' new mashup for their "What's My Connection?"

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 6, 2008

» (More than) 15 useful, creative and odd Google mashups Posted Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 9:09 pm by Ali Cherry (11 posts) Google Maps is a free web mapping service application that allows developers to create “mashups&# with other data and embed the map on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. Here are some examples of interesting Google Map mashups, including one that Beaconfire built, to show the breadth of what can be done (and what we can help you do!).

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Tech Soup Blog

APRIL 19, 2016

The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. TechSoup partnered with agencies like USAID and tech companies like Microsoft and Yahoo to host these "tech for good" challenges annually via our NetSquared program. First, tech-for-good projects (either nonprofit or commercial) submitted a description of their project on the NetSquared website.

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APRIL 21, 2009

TechSoup Global's NetSquared project is doing some amazing work, particularly on the use of mobile technologies and social change around the world. Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site. They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

The Face (book) of NetSquared Champions. The NetSquared Conference is just days away and the NetSquared blogs are buzzing with activity! Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream? Expect lots of tweets from Netsquared next week and make friends with NetSquared on Twitter if you haven't already! Each of the 21 Featured Projects has a project champion who will guide and support the project through conference.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

AUGUST 29, 2006

My stated goal is to generate a Google maps mashup out of databases built by non-profit organizations. I’d love to do a Google mashup out of those databases via Dapp.

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Tech Soup Blog

APRIL 22, 2009

We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. In short, Ushahidi aggregates information from text messages and other media, presenting a clearer picture of a crisis situation as it emerges. Ushahidi was created to address the post-election crisis in Kenya , but is now being used to track violence, human rights abuses, and aid efforts all over the world. read more.

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Tech Soup Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

This post originally appeared on the NetSquared Blog and was authored by Amy Sample Ward. 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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Tech Soup Blog

MAY 14, 2013

Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. I first heard about this from Marnie Webb, who co-founded NetSquared. Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya.

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Tech Soup Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

During the early days of our Netsquared project , we held big annual conferences to showcase and fund innovative tech for good. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. These folks do astonishing work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).& Photo from Ed Schipul, taken by Eloy Zuniga Yesterday's panel Pimp Non Profits at SXSW was brilliantly moderated by Ed Schipul.& & Ed is also a very good session designer too.&

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Don't forget to add the search tool. Hurry the deadline is May 19th to submit your idea.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Case Foundation highlights advocacy mashups , and we're glad to see NTEN members Peter Deitz , Care2 , GlobalGiving , and MAPLight.org received some well-deserved props. And we can't forget to highlight the fact that TechSoup 's NetSquared Mashup Challenge helps encourage, spread the news about, and fund this type of work each year.

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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? You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Happy Earth Day, everyone!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. I am a proud member of the NetSquared community and have helped organize Net Tuesday events in Vancouver & Seattle. It could be a re-mix or mashup of the palette of event models above - or entirely new kinds of events! This post was originally published at NetSquared. Courtesy of Joe Solomon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

seem to be the only folks that have been using the maps in mashups to reach their audience. Skip to content Clients Services Portfolio About Us Contact Blog Home > Blog Recent Posts 07/16/2010: The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man 07/12/2010: Is your online campaign going to succeed?

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

JUNE 8, 2008

Imagine applying all that neat stuff at Netsquared or when Beth talks about social media to New York City politics. If you’re a big fan of donor disclosure mashups such as the Federal Elections Commissions maps and opensecrets.org then you’ve come to the right place.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

I wonder what that really meant… It also looks like Infinity is designed for mashups… Relevancy Ranking ( 1 votes, average: 5.00 Infinity does work well with mashups. I don’t know yet if I’m willing to do a Blackbaud Linux Frankenstein installation but it would be hillarious if that worked… hehe… Can’t wait to see the first Infinity mashups myself!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mashups make me want to sing! Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. Though my high school calculus class actually made me break out in hives -- it was the most stressful experience of my life -- I adore data.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 20, 2008

Skip to content Clients Services Portfolio About Us Contact Blog Home > Blog Recent Posts 07/16/2010: The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man 07/12/2010: Is your online campaign going to succeed? 06/28/2010: User Expectations and Interface Response Times 06/16/2010: Making the most of conference hashtags: A tool for presenters 06/08/2010: Beaconfire Survey: Seductive Interactions 06/08/2010: Emailing with Convio – Testing Conditional Content 06/07/2010: Goin’ Barefoot?

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 19, 2008

Vote in NetSquared’s Mashup Challange » 4 reasons the CBS March Madness Facebook app is a winner Posted Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 6:53 pm by Ali Cherry (11 posts) This week a few years ago, I jumped on the Facebook bandwagon so that I could compete against my coworkers in the NCAA tournament.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

MARCH 21, 2008

You can use these tags: « Mpower Open Podcast » Vote for Genocide Intervention Network’s Netsquared Mashup Search Only Non-profit Links Click here to add nonprofit search to your browser!

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Vote in NetSquared’s Mashup Challange Did Facebook become your new Big Brother or a democracy? Skip to content Clients Services Portfolio About Us Contact Blog Home > Blog Recent Posts 07/16/2010: The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man 07/12/2010: Is your online campaign going to succeed?

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Rebooting Charity

OCTOBER 13, 2006

Skip navigation Recent Posts Natural blog cycle Buzz Director: the spacewalk metaphor Group fundraising primer When pictures speak a thousand words Another shout for a Netsquared Europe Communicating the soul of your non-profit My Fundraising 2.0 Since “Full Stop Week&# , which ran from 2 – 8 October, an online gallery of photos has been added using a Flickr mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. Cross posted at Netsquaredphoto of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

So all the guys like Delicious are all talking web services, lists MS Virtual Earth and Yahoo and asks “Has anyone heard of mashups?&# We’ve done some really cool mashups with like there seems to be a section cut out at around 12:48 in the mp3 where Shaun is about to talk about other mashups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Tools for Good: Design Meets Technology in Service There's Gold in Those Archives: Long-long-tail filmmaking Remix Goes Mainstream: Making Mashups Pay Doing Good Online: Mobilizing Community Action Do Cool Kids Leave When The Suits Arrive The iPhone Volunteer: Can Mobile Devices Save Society?

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

AUGUST 11, 2006

This site could have been the basis for unbelievably great mashups and really could have taken off in a big way.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

AUGUST 8, 2006

I personally prefer the.NET call but mashups will be easier to make via the Web service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or API Many people are experimenting with mashups using Google, eBay, Amazon, Windows Live, and Yahoos APIs. Examples of Mashups. Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel. Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

After all, getting some business apps to talk to each other won’t necessarily result in some cool geocoded mashup.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

It’s not an open API in the sense that it can be used as a mashup but it’s wonderful news for nonprofits that are Joomla! At that point, your investment in BB has doubled, once in the data entry and again in the mashup.

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MAY 9, 2007

Publish the API — I can’t emphasize this enough Have great documentation — encourage third parties to contribute Use open source language examples — grow your developer base Have great examples of mashups — Kintera to Joomla!

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

JULY 23, 2008

I suspect submission of other articles in the future from say, Tad Druart of Convio mentioning Aikido Convio Common Ground (yeah they changed the name so no more hillarious Google search mashups of nonprofits and pictures of guys doing Aikido (bow to your sensei!))

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Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director

MAY 25, 2007

I await the first Salesforce.com + Facebook mashups. Let me give you my take on what that mashup would look like.

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