Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

John is currently working on OpenAction, a platform that connects people to the projects they care about. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

We were also humbled by this laudatory blog post on whitehouse.gov by Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Today, we celebrate the ingenuity of the American people with the announcement of Datamasher.org as the winner of the Apps for America contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos. Ken Goldstein dreams of a world where people have a clear understanding of how nonprofits operate , and suggests a reality show as the way to get there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. It is a celebration of the visitor—the people who crossed the river, who made it in the door and decided to identify themselves with us…right here at 40.67124,-73.963834.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). social actions mashup. You have until April 3rd to submit your project.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! So, although you may only have 100 people give you an answer, if your question said, for example, “Have you heard of NTEN?&# And once all 100 responses were gathered, I took a look at all the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership.    It is a celebration of the visitor—the people who crossed the river, who made it in the door and decided to identify themselves with us…right here at 40.67124,-73.963834. . 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Used as a facilitation technique in training can also help people generate ideas on how to apply the skills or concepts being taught. Furthermore, including people in your organization in problem-solving on a regular basis develops your organization’s problem-solving muscle. It can also be used to create work norms or processes.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

And they're doing it in ways that allow people to build web applications on top of the data. 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? and valuable ?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

If the goal of your organization is to educate young people about the effects and causes of climate change and motivate/empower them to start making changes, Facebook could certainly be a part of your organizations strategy. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It can be hard trying to get people in your network and community to donate or get involved in fundraising activities. Do not only ask once and in one way; people might not be able to donate money but they might be to give their time. People want to have a good time; they want to feel like they get something in return.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. Last year's Mashup winner — Ushahidi — is the topic of the first case study. You can track all of the posts by using this link for the N2Y3 case studies here. This year's "Featured Projects" are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. Social Actions is reaching out to social software tool builders to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. and selecting " Comma Separated Values (CSV) " gives you a file you can put on a web server for other people use. You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. Stephen Downes replies here. WHY did I remove ???Non

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

How Non-Profits are Exploring Augmented Reality Tech: "Augmented reality promises a new level of interaction between people and data. One of Sunlight Labs’ early entries is their Recovery.gov mashup. Another example is.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. My intent was to inventory every interesting action I came across to make it easier for people to engage in the causes they cared about. The Social Actions project began in 2006.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. Its team had figured out a way for people in a crisis area to send SMS information (text messages) from their cell phones or computers to report an outbreak of catastrophic conditions.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

He talks about the benefits of both putting book content online *and* also allowing people to engage/comment/mashup the text. Yes, in print: The few authors who have experimented with giving away digital copies (mostly in sci-fi) have found that they end up selling more print copies, because their books are discovered by more people.

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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. The Brooklyn Museum is seeking a more diverse group of people to evaluate the photographs submitted for a crowd curated exhibition called Click. Want to listen on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Step 4: Find People. Start with a couple of people who you know or who represent the group of people you want to listen to. You can try searching for people twitter. People who attended TED. Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. Here's a basic list of what to twitter. Here's a few ideas to get started.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. People in a crisis area could send an SMS (text) message to report an outbreak of violence or other catastrophic conditions. Ping is a way for people to find each other during an emergency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. There is a comment in the post from Dan McQuillan who has been mulling over measurement of social media from the nonprofit perspective. celebration of shared sensations of change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2008

Josh Leo's Video Mashup We R The Media. Come join the smart people coming along on this trip or buzz. in to help us identify the best existing resources, people, and case studies that will give nonprofit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to use social media to change the world.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2009

Many find the the social media space a little overwhelming as it is clear the landscape changes on a daily basis and is filled with strange terms, for example what is astroturfing and what exactly is a mashup - does it have anything to do with mash potatoes ? read more.

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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. I have dreams of applications that combine, say, available bed space in shelters and soup kitchens, all mapped for people to find. It’s all possible if people freely share the data they share anyway on the web in an API. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

So, this is a Facebook group for people who use or want to use Twitter for good! It was created to celebrate the launch of a new Twitter mashup that makes it super easy to share actions with your friends: (it also works with Facebook!): [link]. Joe has done a great job scraping all the links and adding to the group's home page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I did a mashup with social media framing. The five ways of thinking addressed by the model include different views on what the authors say, "why and how people or things change" (p. People change their standpoints only if their own interests are taken into account. People change if things are appealing and inspiring to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

This graphic is a mashup of Priscilla Brisbane's illustration of Levels of Engagement in advocacy campaigns with this blog post from the Social Organization's blog about how how business relationships and how technology helps or hinders. Lately, people have been saying they are blog readers. The fourth stage is friendship.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. Maps Of The People, By The People, For The People - Map Kibera.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. NpTech Conversations.

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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. Whether it’s data or dances, silos keep people separated at the party. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Going forward, it will be more important to connect your user’s social addresses with this information, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2007

I've had the great pleasure to meet many kindred spirits and interesting people via my blog who I did not know offline or may have never connected. I think of her work as a mashup between an extremely talented court room artist, journalist, social activist and philanthropist.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. Maps Of The People, By The People, For The People - Map Kibera.

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