Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Test-drive submitted applications to the Change The Web Challenge. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. Romina Oliverio will explain how you can help the Change The Web Challenge. Learn about the Open Actions XML micro format, and how you can use it. Brainstorm opportunities for online campaigners.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. for geeks is APIs.

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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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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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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. Our application also automatically generates RSS feeds for their supporters to stay engaged throughout the life of the project.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

Facebook has lots of applications, it’s true: whether they are specifically targeted at “green&# efforts (like the lil green patch app) or not (like Causes ). You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Made Earth Day Every Day?&# - I certainly hope not!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 1, 2007

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

By now, most of you have probably heard that our DataMasher application won Apps for America 2 via our press release or our celebratory tweets. The competing applications were impressive and the voting was close. Then you can share them with your friends and comment on the mashups of others. Apparently, we won by only 12 votes!

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Mashup Contest America Press 51

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. Build an application using the Foursquare  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).

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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. In January, the NYC BigApps competition will award a $20,000 cash prize and lunch with Mayor Bloomberg to the developers of the most creative applications using NYC data. for the public. By now, most folks in the web development and Gov 2.0

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Government Rhode Island District of Columbia Data 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. Desktop applications built for Twitter allow you to read replies and direct messages and offer a more custom browsing experience. Step 5: Add Desktop Clients. You can use Twitter's web interface, but it can get difficult to see who is talking to you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Not too long ago, I submitted my chapter to BJ Fogg's Psychology of Facebook Applications. The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

You're probably already busy trying to support email and calendaring on these devices, but you're going to have to start thinking about creating and deploying applications that allow your staff to use their phone as a mobile office. What data and applications can and should you give them access to via their phones? .

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Let's break it down into three major components: Applications: The tools that you use to run your nonprofit (e.g., Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Review your options.

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Jordan Application Amazon Mashup 74

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. 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. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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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. If you already have a presence on MySpace, check this out - causes has just launched an application at MySpace. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

Here's the lowdown: Apps for America will award developers for the best applications, based on data from Sunlight and its partners, that make Congress more accountable, interactive, and transparent. > " Duh: the NTEN community! > Learn more about the contest at [link]. The grand prize is $15,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2007

. * This same platform would have a series of APIs, so that doctors offices, schools, universities, researchers, community groups, local businesses and anyone with an interest could build applications, mashups and widgets that could use the data for the long tail of citizen needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2008

& & Rachel and Erin spoke about advocacy applications.& Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).& & The rest of the panelists included Rachel Weidinger, Erin Denny, and Michaela Hackner.&

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

He or she has created one of the most innovative, enjoyable mashups out of a cultural icon. What's a mashup? speak, it's a web application that combines data from more than one source to create a new tool. This mashup turns a simple list of quotes into a geographically browsable conversation.

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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 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. That’s good news.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. 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. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 11, 2006

Relatively unskilled developers will just mashup a bunch of enterprise services and -voila! mission critical software applications. The idea that the business objects -- the bricks, if you will -- and the end-user application -- the wall -- can be completely separated conceptually is just not true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. I'm excited that a few of us can meet face-to-face! Here's a few resources that might be of interest: How to do you explain flickr to those who haven't heard of it? It isn??????t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Voting, rating, and feedback crowdsourcing projects have applications beyond philanthropy and marketing. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. 2) Crowd Creation.

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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

MARCH 19, 2010

Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! We can help you with that. Better The World in booth 46. Sage in booth 18.

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Free Ipod NTC Atlanta 95

AFP Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Now, even the newest for-profit applications can turn heads by utilizing this new advanced technology.The non-profit sector has started to experiment with augmented reality. One of Sunlight Labs’ early entries is their Recovery.gov mashup. Another example is.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

Charlie is also waiting for context-aware computing, where the application will know from the user, the time, the room the workstation is in and so on, just how to react to an input. His concern is that while indeed some new techniques have come into use, simply using them does not necessarily provide better applications: The Web 2.0

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! We can help you with that. Better The World in booth 46. Sage in booth 18.

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Free Ipod NTC Atlanta 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. API stands for Application Programming Interface, but don???t Examples of Mashups. Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics. Enterprise 2.0

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

2010 : mobile social media augmented reality location-based services gesture-based computing semantic web 2009 : mobile cloud computing geo-everything (similar to location-based services) personal web semantic-aware applications smart objects 2008 : grassroots video collaboration webs (collaborating on the web) mobile broadband data mashups collective (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. the final version, the application pulls images from flickr.com that are tagged "denver+art+museum" and screened for certain licensing types. In designing and developing The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr.

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Flickr Museum Denver Images 61

Care2

JULY 16, 2008

The folks at Social Actions are trying to recruit a wide array of ideas from the non profit community for web applications and mashups Social Actions can build. Why not contribute to the Social Actions Labs Idea Wiki? Their goal is to build & bring to life between three to five of the communitys best ideas.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

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. Which means: You don't need to have the same application open as someone else to communicate with them. There's the basic site.

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