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. On a related note, see Allison Fine's Social Citizen's Report commissioned by the Case Foundation. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them. As Hersman says , "Sometimes there is just nothing more you can do than report what you see." Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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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. Should EDN be an aggregator for the sector, pulling in news and reports, information and so on? So how do you cut through the noise, how do you sift through the random updates, how do you connect and engage?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In general, it may be considered fair use if you are reproducing a work for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. During the Webinar with Michael Hughes of See3, the question of fair use came up, specifically around the mashup that was made to promote NTEN video content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

As the small groups report out, you can reorganize categories on the fly. In addition, here are a few more techniques and facilitation playbooks to explore : MashUp Brainstorm Activity. Ask each small group to share their sticky note brainstorm by placing the post-it notes on the flip chart, organized in different themes and clusters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.)

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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

JANUARY 23, 2007

I think of her work as a mashup between an extremely talented court room artist, journalist, social activist and philanthropist. One such person I've met is Ashely Cecil , a self-described "painting journalist" who describes the world with a paintbrush (and a scanner and a blog.)

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mashups make me want to sing! Here's a very simple example: You may have a goal of distributing 10,000 copies of a report via your web site. A basic BI strategy would certainly provide a way to tell you how many reports have been downloaded. I want to eat statistics for dinner. I would marry a good data visualization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us How do we—innovators, entrepreneurs—know what's going to make real-world impact and where do we start?

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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. So, the resulting report should be fascinating. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together. 20 practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. In this post, I???m

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? It doesn't have to be difficult or even expensive; it can even be free. We can help you with that.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? It doesn't have to be difficult or even expensive; it can even be free. We can help you with that.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museums, archives, and libraries. Like its predecessors, the report provides succinct backgrounds and reference projects for technologies predicted for widespread adoption on the 1, 2-3, and 4-5 year timescale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

Dual non profit bottom lines compound the "reporting" problem but does not take away from actual changes resulting from the use of social media. Mashups Rule - programmableweb mashups for example. Microfundraising has huge potential ( Kanter , FrozenPeaFund examples). Crisis forms communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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