Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change? Can you imagine a way to combine data that would increase awareness around an issue? You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The company I work for, TheWebService.com&# , has created a new form of data storage, called “MyTables&# – it’s not open source, and it doesn’t use MySQL, but it is a very convenient and quick way of uploading and managing your own data. Non Profits should never feel that their data is being held hostage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Adding a new data point to it. Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. Examples of Mashups.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

A New Trend: Diggin' Data The new year brings some new trends in how people are using the web and with them brings new realms for museums to explore. You don't need Wal-Mart's permission, just an API and a source for the data. Data is also getting stored in new places. So what's next? What if the government said you had to?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Its a brand new app released just moments ago thats basically Google Maps combined with ChatGPT, Perplexity, Wikipedia, and more. A modern mapping mashup Let me back up for one quick second: A moment ago, I told you todays tool is a brand new service. By default, the service will pull info from ChatGPT and Wikipedia into its results.

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