Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup. next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. So, Allan, did I get it right? Update: See Ben's Comment over here. NpTech Conference Call Notes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Next time inspiration strikes you to make a difference, the opportunities to take action will be but one click away. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. Agenda : Peter Deitz, founder of Social Actions, will present his vision for an open philanthropic web. Brainstorm opportunities for online campaigners.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

—— John has spent time working for Microsoft, doing R&D for the defense industry and was part of a few past startups that didn’t quite reach “critical mass.&# I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

They have been for a long time and some nonprofits, like Momsrising, have been using them as part of their engagement strategy. Lori Jacobwith and Lori Halley share two things—a first name and a dream of sufficient resources of time, talent and treasure (a.k.a. Flickr Photo by Domen Jakus. budget). .

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. A Google maps, Twitter and Foursquare mashup that show’s where your event participants are checking in on a map and what they’re  talking about). Joe Smith checked into foodbank Y 27 times for a total of 27 hours served).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

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. Or consider giving out a specific reward or celebration for people who contribute to a certain level of time or money to the cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

The first time you do it, you ask each person to respond to the idea with the word no, then say their idea. The second time around, you ask participants to respond with yes and. It is critical to success to spend time before the session identifying the right brainstorming question and the problem definition. You can set a timer.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

We have seen awareness campaigns like World Wildlife Federation’s “wildlife watch&# (next time you see wildlife, Tweet it with the hashtag #wwf!), You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. The power of blogs is the real-time documentation.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. She covers initial goals, leadership buy-in, staff time, and next steps.

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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. APIs allow programmers to create applications that use your data and ensure they get the freshest copy every time. Use an international standard for time. How can I make my data useful?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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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. Ushahidi would then compile and display the information in real time online on a map. I was there that year and the competition was intense. So much innovation.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Member News online this week: NTEN member United Nations Foundation is featured in a Forbes article for turning to innovative online strategies -- including YouTube and Twitter -- to raise money in tough economic times. Speaking of turning to online media, has your organization invested in online banner ads?

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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. If you're just reading about this project for the first time, here's the basic info: NTEN's Social Media curriculum project where the community is the curriculum ! Last week a group of lawyers representing a forthcoming book told us they didn't want us using same for the name NTEN's project.

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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! In 2009, a dollar spent by the organization on online tools helped to improve 10 times as many neighborhoods as a dollar spent on playground equipment. We think that KaBOOM!

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Network Case Study Social Change 95

Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The information would be compiled and displayed in real time online on a map. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. We got to know Ushahidi mere months after the platform launched.

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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. But not all of these solutions scale, and many don’t lead to better user relationships over time. . It’s time to throw the nonprofit tech dept some love. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. These were changes that we had wanted to make for a long time.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

And the good news is that if you've never created web videos before and don't have the big bucks to hire a professional, there is enough time to learn. Next ManorMeta Mashup coming soon, enjoy this for now! ~in NTEN has just announced the first NTC video competition. in kenzo, machinimatographer~

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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 adoption of the typewriter, at just the same time that women began to work in offices, reflected changes in women's roles, new ideas about the organization of work, and the rapidly growing corporations of the day. Joitske recommend Learning To Change. Remington & Sons around 1875.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

  But wasn't sure if I was going to have the time given the packed schedule to be truly inventive.   I'm going to focus on external communications goals - and use the How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?    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

MAY 7, 2010

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. Online, this may mean participants creating their own mashups or using organizational data to construct visualizations. I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in.

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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. Chris Brogan tweeted about this blog this morning and I when I read the post it got me thinking.

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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. I'm a dog person, so this one got my attention -- a portion of the portrait fee will be donated to the Humane Society, the dog might get a new home, and you can watch a time lapse video of her painting the portrait.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Quick start: Try before you buy, and get up and running in very little time. Choice: For a long time, nonprofits have been offered suites of applications. Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g.,

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Jordan Application Amazon Mashup 74

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Humaninet can help agencies map critical locations in near-real-time, such as shelter points or resource depots.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

These services don't integrate right now, which makes managing them difficult -- and makes dealing with them a big waste of time for your staff. . Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. It will cost a lot of time to make the change happen. Then Instant Messenger. And now there's VOIP, SMS, Twitter, and more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions. SQL is a bit fiddly at the best of times, and if we move past SaaS to DaaS (Data as a Service) it frees up a *lot* more time to share ideas on the functionality front. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Look within your company for people already using social media If you've got writers, blog If you've got storytellers, podcast If you've got filmmakers, do some video The key to success is finding out what networks to spend your time on Step-by-Step Product name, ceo, competitors in Google Alerts Who are my customers?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2009

Like most professionals these days, I have to spend a fair amount of my time preparing presentations, to my boss, my colleagues, my clients, etc. This means time spent translating my thoughts into both words and pictures that convey the meaning in the best, clearest, and most persuasive way. Author: James Young.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Humaninet can help agencies map critical locations in near-real-time, such as shelter points or resource depots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

The cover is from a remix mashup. How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? A number of folks have sent back thanks for saving them some time in prepping a presentation. Creating a remix that goes beyond cut and paste, takes some time, creativity and higher thinking skills! .

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mashups make me want to sing! If you collect and analyze data over time, it can tell you where you're headed, tomorrow -- and that can help you make better business decisions. . Even though you DON'T have to buy expensive tools if your needs are fairly simple, it will cost you in staff time. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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