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. The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts.

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APRIL 22, 2009

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Twitter Action Pack : A directory of 30+ Twitter accounts that automatically post actions on the issues you care about. Firefox Ubiquity Command : A Firefox mashup that lets you highlight any phrase as your browse the web and find related ways to take action. social actions mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2008

The last leg of the journey was to attend the Netsquared Conference (N2Y3) where three winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge were selected by conference participants. A Mashup Of 29+ Social Action Platforms ??? There were two winners announced for the Case Foundation DonateNow Mashup Challenge : Social Actions ???

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter. 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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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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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Twitter Action Pack : A directory of 30+ Twitter accounts that automatically post actions on the issues you care about. Firefox Ubiquity Command : A Firefox mashup that lets you highlight any phrase as your browse the web and find related ways to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I got a message from one of my readers, Ashley Messick, on Facebook about a recent post about Social Actions Twitter for Good Facebook Group and TwitterFeed Mashup I wanted to Digg post about Save the World with Twitter and wasn't quite sure how to categorize it when submitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Want to listen on Twitter? Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. What's the nonprofit chatter that is happening right now on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Don't forget to add the search tool.

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APRIL 16, 2007

drug that’s caught on hot and heavy in the last six months: twitter. If you’ve never seen twitter, take a moment and check it out. There's twittervision , twitter's most popular mashup, which shows tweets (twitter entries) real-time on a global map. And many more mashups and applications available here.

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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). "      Other ideas include a special Museum badge.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

UNF has a YouTube channel and uses Twitter to engage support online. Case Foundation highlights advocacy mashups , and we're glad to see NTEN members Peter Deitz , Care2 , GlobalGiving , and MAPLight.org received some well-deserved props. I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you!

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MAY 25, 2011

1) Twitter has started to email account users when someone retweets your tweets. 2) Twitter is buying Tweetdeck. Assuming you check your email often or get prompted when you get a new email, it makes it a little easier to know when someone has retweeted your work. If you use Tweetdeck already, you shouldn’t notice much change.

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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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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

MARCH 7, 2009

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. 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.

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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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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. I’ll pay attention as soon as I get my Facebook and Twitter strategy off the ground.” You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services.

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. The tech to connect Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, cell, email, addresses and other PID is here -- and it improves by the day. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. It’s time to throw the nonprofit tech dept some love.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2008

   Example ComcastCares on Twitter.  More and better interaction With podcasting you can also have subscribers, cmments, cross-postings, episode ratings, community chats, and mashups and more. Ultimately, conversations with people we like and trust develop relationships.   How do we join conversations: 1. 

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Why not contribute to the Social Actions Labs Idea Wiki?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. Everyone is a Curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Expect lots of tweets from Netsquared next week and make friends with NetSquared on Twitter if you haven't already! Lots buzz about Facebook 's new platform on blogs and especially on twitter (when it wasn't down for maintenance). I just love this video introduction from the good folks from Freedom for IP. The NpTech Summary.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

And now there's VOIP, SMS, Twitter, and more. Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. But think about how you personally send and receive communications every day. It used to be that all we had to deal with was the phone and fax. Then came email. Then Instant Messenger. In other words, data sharing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. 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 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Care2

JULY 17, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Why not contribute to the Social Actions Labs Idea Wiki?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. Thanks much for getting this going.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mashups make me want to sing! I asked some folks on Twitter today if they had a BI strategy and what their biggest challenges were. Though my high school calculus class actually made me break out in hives -- it was the most stressful experience of my life -- I adore data. I want to eat statistics for dinner. Preposterous, I say!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office. This panel will explore and discuss the impact of tools like Twitter, Qik, Utterz, Ustream, and more on current and future elections. With snacks!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

We're hosting a contest called the NetSquared Mashup Challenge that I wanted to let you know about, and am hoping that you'll pass on to social changemakers and web innovators in your community. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panel will cover the various tools (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook) that are being used to elevate protests, examine the benefits and drawbacks of the internet's involvement and whether social media makes protests more or less efficient, and discuss the issue of authenticity in information dissemination.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! And before, during, and after the conference follow us on twitter @is7interactive #. We can help you with that. Better The World in booth 46. Bicknell Information Group in booth 75. See you in Atlanta!

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