Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Social Actions has created an open database of 60,000+ actions from 40+ sites — including GlobalGiving, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, Kiva.org, NABUUR, TakingITGlobal, Idealist.org, and VolunteerMatch. Agenda : Peter Deitz, founder of Social Actions, will present his vision for an open philanthropic web.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2009

Best Animation or Mashup . It looks like there are about 20 award categories, including: Technology Impact Moment. Online Politician of the Year. Oustanding Online Campaigns (National and local). Best Candidate Blog. Best Mobile/SMS Campaign. Best Podcasting Series. You can find out more about the criteria and award descriptions here. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. It ended up winning the competition, $5,000 and lots of exposure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

It opens up the question: Who owns our data? This a big topic in the open data and nonprofit big data field. Opendata question is also critical – how do you know whether data you release will be dangerous in future mashups? Personal Health Data goes beyond collecting sleep metrics. How long will this data be stored?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. One of the fascinating things to me is how quickly the CRM space is evolving. I’m glad to see that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This was a tough assignment, being so open ended. An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos. My dad, Manny Schwartz, together with Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

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. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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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. Vancouver's Open Data Catalogue : If you are a Vancouver resident or tourist, you can subscribe to an RSS feed of traffic advisories or review the 133 voting division boundaries. Tell us in the comments.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

They encourage you to use Sunlight's code libraries , which the Labs recently open sourced. Entries must be applications that use a host of government information APIs or datasets, including the Sunlight Labs API, OpenSecrets.org API, the FollowtheMoney.org API, the Capitol Words API, and other Sunlight APIs and datasets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. Voting's open till Monday! Charity Dynamics helped National Trust for Historic Preservation use open and social technology to re-engage their members and community.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

May we suggest that if you ever host a party, you should offer an "Orange Leap Mashup" That sounds like it would be delicious. MPower has rebranded as Orange Leap. Never again will Holly have to say, "No, 'M' as in 'Mother' Power, not 'N' as in 'Nancy' Power" That's probably for the best. " Congrats to Orange Leap!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. applications, provided their data via open APIs, it would help other nonprofits, and the sector as a whole. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. So how do you cut through the noise, how do you sift through the random updates, how do you connect and engage? Don’t create a strategy or even expect to use Twitter for the actions. It’s not going to work.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. These folks do astonishing work. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. So, first off, one of the interesting things was that there was some initial differences of opinion as to how to define open APIs, and what they were used for. You can have openness and security.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! 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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website. I'd like to close by pointing you all to this Valentine's Day appropriate post by Eric Johnson of the Case Foundation : " How to Date a Mashup Programmer " Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2007

. * This same platform would have a series of APIs, so that doctors offices, schools, universities, researchers, community groups, local businesses and anyone with an interest could build applications, mashups and widgets that could use the data for the long tail of citizen needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I did a mashup with social media framing. In turn, the typewriter brought about and helped to accelerate social change, opening up new jobs for women in the office. I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. Collect my cell and there is a 90% chance I open your text message. My email gives you 10-15% open rate. . By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. So, email is just the beginning of PID, the baseline.

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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 ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

You can "protect your updates" or "open." Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. Sign up for a free account and fill out your profile by adding an image and one-line bio and include a link to your site. You can read on the web or send messages to your phone or IM client. Decide what works best for your working style. Pros/cons to each.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Questions are most productive when they are open versus closed, short versus long, and simple versus complex. In addition, here are a few more techniques and facilitation playbooks to explore : MashUp Brainstorm Activity. Brainstorming questions are typically formulated as “How might we …?” ” questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. And the results have been impressive. In so doing, it has had more impact for less cost.

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Network Case Study Social Change 95

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

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 ). But back to my love of the internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

.  I've done the game using this approach (see the workshop notes and reflections from Meyer Memorial Trust) and keeping open-ended an letting one person in the small group be the "client."       On the cards, he defines the tools, provides a question, and url. 

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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 ! One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations. Drew Bernard has a blog about conversation, technology, activism, and life.

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NCE Social Media

MAY 25, 2011

This has opened up the debate of who owns the photos, videos, and anything else you post to social media. If you use Tweetdeck already, you shouldn’t notice much change. 3) Who has rights to photos you post on social media? A woman posted a photo of the latest shuttle launch on a social media site.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Or, it might open the door for a teachable moment about Creative Commons and the share economy. The cover is from a remix mashup. I've always wondered whether or not when someone makes a gazillion dollars on one of my photos or my blog posts, will I be sorry? I remixed it from an earlier presentation called Associations 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. A new way of leadership and managing is needed, called "Open Leadership".

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"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.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A You can open an account on flickr for free (although if you get a professional account you can upload more photos) and start using it in minutes. Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to describe web resources with keywords. Check to make sure they have an open API.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The concept of openness. offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). " This point really resonates with what Allison H. Fine writes about in her book Momentum. Fine, a self-identified ???recovering

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