Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

My colleague Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web gave me a sneak peak at their Guide to Online Community Management Report and Aggregator. The report condenses and summarizes the best thinking about online community management from a cadre of experts - those are online community manager practitioners and gurus.

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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. The community showed me a need for what I built, so I used this momentum as an opportunity to take what I built to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

In May, I was lucky enough to spend a few days with community foundations at the annual GuideStar DonorEdge Learning Conference. We heard from Christina Ciociola, Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and what they have learned about using data from Donor Edge to become the community knowledge center over the past few years.

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

In February I found myself seeking air-conditioned sanctuary in the Dar Es Salaam offices of Kinu , a co-working space and business accelerator, talking with Co-Founder and Community Manager John Paul Barretto. there needs to be a community which in turn creates a culture and eventually leads to a self-supporting ecosystem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The Nonprofit Blog Carnival is a collection of the best advice and resources that consultants, support organizations, and nonprofits themselves are offering to the nonprofit community through their blogs. An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos.

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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! Organizations are looking for ways to learn about their community and those they want to reach but haven’t yet. And once all 100 responses were gathered, I took a look at all the data.

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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 updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

communities (and readers of this blog) have heard about the federal government's Data.gov initiative (and the winner of a certain Apps for America competition using these data sets). Independent programmers have used the data to develop a range of innovative mashups an mobile apps, which the city lists in its App Showcase.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Inspired by “ bug bounty ” programs, Jeong-Suh Choi and Soohyun Bae founded Bobidi , a platform aimed at helping companies validate their AI systems by exposing the systems to the global data science community. ” To test models, the Bobidi “community” of developers builds a validation dataset for a given system.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

The Tableau Blueprint Assessment is based on Data Culture research and Tableau Blueprint —a mashup of analytics best practices and the expertise of thousands of customers, curated to help our customers turn repeatable processes into core capabilities. Adopt processes and best practices across agility, proficiency, community, and governance.

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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

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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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. Is there a way you would want your organization’s community or membership to interact with the content or actions distributed through the Change.org platform?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

Be a part of the community. Mashups Rule - programmableweb mashups for example. Crisis forms communities. Communities exist after crises subside, yet aren't leveraged typically. Themes from the above links and from other reading: Non profits have adopted social media very quickly. Pay attention.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

" Duh: the NTEN community! Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz APIs. When I heard about this contest, I asked myself, "Who would I know with API coding skills and a passion for government transparency -- and who likes winning money?" Check the Labs' wiki for ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

When, on the other hand, amateurs had the opportunity to help design scientific questions or disseminate research results, they often felt more ownership of the project and greater interest in using scientific methods to address their own community needs.

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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. Charity Dynamics helped National Trust for Historic Preservation use open and social technology to re-engage their members and community. Voting's open till Monday!

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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. The community around your issue will learn to count on your research and information. This elevates you from just somebody with data to a service on which the rest of the community depends.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2020

Notably, Twitter is presenting the API v2 not only as a way to deliver new features faster, but as something of a reset in its long and fractious relationship with the app’s developer community. Prior to this, outside developers could more or less replicate and customize the Twitter experience in their own clients.

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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

Long Station blog has great notes here ) Erin talked about the NetSquared Mashup (deadline on March 14th).& Long Station Patty in the Burbs 07G Community Mobilization David Lee King & & Rachel and Erin spoke about advocacy applications.& & Rachel shared some great examples of social media advocacy campaigns.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

He has a point; when I play Fortnite , I’m constantly shuffling through different outfits and accessories to fit my mood or to create fun mashups. I think what’s really special about what we can do with our technology and with our community is create new ways for players to self-express [and] also new ways for players to experience fashion.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). social actions mashup. You have until April 3rd to submit your project.

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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. What do you think? Let's start a nonprofit Diggfest?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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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. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Don't forget to add the search tool.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It can be hard trying to get people in your network and community to donate or get involved in fundraising activities. Collect gold since it is selling at a high rate and you can ask your community to donate what they haven't worn in years. This is especially true if you only reach out to them when you need something from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. He goes to say that the most important criteria for success is the existence of a vibrant committed community. This isn't the first time a classical music organization has turned to social media and crowdsourcing.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lovette Ajayi discusses Facebook's "Kindergarten" year and the recent Terms of Service uproar in a post on the Community Media Workshop 's blog. 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.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2009

However, the growth of social media online offers a two way communication medium with opportunities for nonprofit organisations to build community, collective action, productivity, social and cultural capital and capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. There is a comment in the post from Dan McQuillan who has been mulling over measurement of social media from the nonprofit perspective. celebration of shared sensations of change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

What if you could become part of an online community that contributes images of similar topics for you to consume? Community-Powered Campaigns. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. March of Dimes Contest (features community voting). Overview article from December NTEN newsletter.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

. :). I'd like to close by pointing you all to this Valentine's Day appropriate post by Eric Johnson of the Case Foundation : " How to Date a Mashup Programmer " Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten members.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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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 ! The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations.

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