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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. These folks do astonishing work. For example, during a severe snowstorm on the East Coast of the U.S.,

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Collaborative Storytelling and Open Source Interviews

Museum 2.0

A lot of museums--and web, radio, etc--are pursuing projects in which visitors share their personal stories around a topic, whether that be broad and profound ( storycorps.net ) or light and specific ( map mashup of Overheard in NY ). Of course, there are other stories that involve the public and literally get under their skin.

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Check out the same area we saw above using the Map Kibera map.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Check out the same area we saw above using the Map Kibera map.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. With snacks!

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Web and PR/Marketing An excellent post from Chris Andreson on Long Tail PR: How To Do Publicity Without A Press Release (or the Press) Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. The topic is " How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention? 20 practices.

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