Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

When you click on a place-mark on Gharbia's Google Maps mashup, a pop-up reveals details, stories and videos of prisoners and their families. What visual representations of geographic data can help tell your organization's or cause's story? What are some ways that this could be used to enhance a nonprofit's program delivery?

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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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MARCH 10, 2022

Image: Google. Google Photos’ portrait blur feature on Android will soon be able to blur backgrounds in a wider range of photos, including pictures of pets, food, and — my personal favorite — plants. Google Photos has previously been able to blur the background in photos of people. Image: Google. Image: Google.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009. You can also view uplifting visualizations, such as this Google graph of the state's unemployment rate. What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. 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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. Is teaching in a public school commercial activity? University?

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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? One fun example is overplot , a mashup that takes quotes overheard in New York City ( the data ) and places them on a Google map (the tool), so you can browse the quotations by address.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Bae was previously a senior engineer at Google and led augmented reality mapping at Niantic, while Choi was a senior manager at eBay and headed the “people engineering” team at Facebook. ” “Bobidi is a mashup between community and AI, a unique combination of expertise that we share,” Choi added.

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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. Honda: Online tools like DabbleDB or Google Spreadsheets also allow sharing data and even building simple charts or applications with them. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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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. I try to just use the search function or rely on shoutouts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Databricks calls the technology a data “lakehouse,” a mashup of data lake and data warehouse. That includes Snowflake, Amazon, Google and others who want to secure a piece of the new market category that Databricks sees emerging. It’s all kinds of [large, established] vendors,” he said.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. And the results have been impressive. In so doing, it has had more impact for less cost.

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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 ! ") Okay, now we're onto fondling APIs, google's to be exact.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Kibera is a slum located within the city of Nairobi, Kenya.

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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. change the name of the google group ( done ). 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. No small irony that the book and our project is about the collaborative power of social media. wiki name ( done ).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And today in operating-system mashups : Google wants to bring Chrome OS to your Mac or PC , and Microsoft is rolling out support for Amazon’s app store for Windows 11. Sadly, in the meantime, iMessage refuses to play nice with anyone else.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Skype, Convio Common Ground, Google Apps, Salesforce.com). Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Amazon S3, Google Checkout, Google Maps, PayPal). Let's break it down into three major components: Applications: The tools that you use to run your nonprofit (e.g.,

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

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. 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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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

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Kibera is a slum located within the city of Nairobi, Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Starbucks Campaign Photo Group on Flickr Read Britt Bravo's excellent write up here. Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. One.org Campaign Add Your One Face To Flickr Group. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites).

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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. He is a frequent speaker on not-for-profit tech issues at forums, including the Google Grants Conference, NTEN, U.N. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. During his 4.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 You can create an RSS feed that would work 24/7 and bring any news to your desktop from Google News or Yahoo News. Examples of Mashups.

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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 23, 2008

Look within your company for people already using social media If you've got writers, blog If you've got storytellers, podcast If you've got filmmakers, do some video The key to success is finding out what networks to spend your time on Step-by-Step Product name, ceo, competitors in Google Alerts Who are my customers?

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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! Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? We can help you with that. Better The World in booth 46.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. But can they also combat apathy? Design and Development Powers for the Social Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Pop through your read to check out the new look for the blog too, although there are vendor ads via Google) Sundance, the Oscars, and Nonprofit Technology? Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. 20 practices.

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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! Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? We can help you with that. Better The World in booth 46.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise. Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. Perhaps your eStore products within Craigslist and so on.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise. Imagine someone who can offer to mashup your Advocacy Campaign results with Google Maps, or Fundraising Campaigns with Amazon and eBay. Perhaps your eStore products within Craigslist and so on.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2007

Hooray for the use of google maps mashups to locate their "exhibits." Who hasn't seen a beautifully decaying barn door, a rainbowed oil slick, or abandoned shopping cart and thought, "Hey, that belongs in a museum!" Hats off for including white foamcore "labels" on the "pieces."

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Drupal and google docs single sign on. I’d also have to cough up $50/year to get a google account that has the SSO API, but it might be worth it. Doing a google map mashup of data in Drupal. I’m making a list of little(ish) projects that I want to do - sort of like problems I think I want to know how to solve.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2011

Their effective constituent engagement strategies from mobilizing their supporters and the coordination of staff, field teams to their use of their web properties, social media sites, mobile, Google, video, and much more – is a perfect example of how multi-channel campaigns should work.

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