Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Through a search engine, Open Actions XML micro-format, an open API, and third-party tools and widgets, you can find and share ways to get involved in the causes you care about. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. Learn about the Open Actions XML micro format, and how you can use it.

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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 ! KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2009

We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. Tools Web 2.0 In short, Ushahidi aggregates information from text messages and other media, presenting a clearer picture of a crisis situation as it emerges.

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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! What if you used the tool as a way of campaigning? And once all 100 responses were gathered, I took a look at all the data. First, overall: And when you click on “What does this chart mean?&# Campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

In addition to tracking data points like heart rate or blood pressure, these tools also enable individuals to record and analyze their behavior such as physical activity and diet, and sleep habits as in the example above. Opendata question is also critical – how do you know whether data you release will be dangerous in future mashups?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

tools by companies: Forrester released some results from a December 2006 survey of 119 CIOs at mid-size and larger companies. tools - blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, and content tagging - and a remarkable 35% said they were already using all six of the tools. McKinsey also looked at six tools.

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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. Essentially, we give organizations a simple tool to manage project information, like photos and videos.

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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 19, 2013

An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos. Penelope Rivas, Communications and Social Media Intern at Volunteer Match, shares her dream for nonprofits to execute more daring and audacious social media marketing campaigns.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

I also wrote a software choice worksheet , that can help with the process of looking at a wide variety of tools. One of the fascinating things to me is how quickly the CRM space is evolving. I’m glad to see that. After the webinar, I’ll be putting the slides up in varied places, and NTEN will have a recording of the webinar. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Social Actions is reaching out to social software tool builders to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. Firefox Ubiquity Command : A Firefox mashup that lets you highlight any phrase as your browse the web and find related ways to take action. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

" which is an introduction to social media concepts and tools for nonprofit use. where derivative work is allowed is a great tool for the. While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. The title was " Ten Steps to Extension 2.0

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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. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Voting's open till Monday! Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg: Sometimes it's WHO you know ;).

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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. With all the great tools available, all of us can be experts! Honda: Online tools like DabbleDB or Google Spreadsheets also allow sharing data and even building simple charts or applications with them.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2009

Or have you started out in the online world of the blogosphere, twitterverse, vlogosphere or virtual reality but now that you have you are not sure what the right tools are for the job or who should be involved. Do you wonder how it can make a difference to your organisation?

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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. Use the tool for what it is: a communications platform. So how do you cut through the noise, how do you sift through the random updates, how do you connect and engage? It’s not going to work.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Ushahidi has developed multiple software tools now that are in use in well over 100 countries and dozens of local languages. Many organizations, including the United Nations, have used Ushahidi's crowdsourcing tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).& & Michaela Hackner shared some insights on what it is like to be the sole techie in an organization and encouraging adoption of social media tools. Her slides are gorgeous and you find the talking points on her blog.)&

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Don't forget to add the search tool. Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Hurry the deadline is May 19th to submit your idea. A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Since I'm going to be teaching the Listening Module for the WeAreMedia workshop in February, I'm going to write up some step-by-steps on how to do this with different monitoring tools. Here's a neat tool to help you design your profile. Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. I'm starting with Twitter (don't know what Twitter is?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

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]. Twitter as Tool for Emergencies : Twitter Me to Safety : Twitter for health and healthcare. So, this is a Facebook group for people who use or want to use Twitter for good!

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 1, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I did a mashup with social media framing. I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace. being a tool for change facilitation - which it is. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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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. 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

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AFP Blog

MAY 11, 2009

The NonProfit Matrix: Directory of Online Service Providers for Nonprofits | NonProfit Matrix: "TechSoup has published a handy guide for nonprofits getting started with Google Maps and Google Earth mapping tools and mashups."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

"    Use of Points When Selecting Tools:   He only gives participants a choice of 18 tools and it is a wide range (more technical tools like Drupal, Joombla, and Mashups), but they have a budget of 10 points - so this naturally leads to a discussion of priorities.  

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NCE Social Media

MAY 25, 2011

You should read the privacy and permissions policies for each social media tool/platform/product you use to know. Is it mashing up current tools? 4) Hashtags continue to be important in social media. I’ve discussed them in the past. Here’s a list of 30 hashtags you may want to follow that are specific to nonprofits.

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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. I wonder if you can map specific tools to specific stages? What techniques?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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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 ! With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans. 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. Nonprofits are resourceful, great at finding solutions given the available tools. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Whether it’s data or dances, silos keep people separated at the party.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The Social Actions API now uses a tool called Zemanta to apply these processes when searching the actions contained in the dataset. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why.

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