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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Mashups are great. But I think 2009 will see a more refined world of mashups take over. We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. I love them!

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Cool Mashup of GoogleMaps for Advocacy via Global s

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Check out the Tunisian Prison Map. Tunisian exile Sami Ben Gharbia is the creator of the Tunisian Prison Map -- an idea inspired by a New York Times interactive map charting murder locations. The map is compelling and provocative, and it's one more reason Gharbia, who now lives in the Hague, says he can't go home.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

Tech Soup

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. How is social media being deployed to connect the Green Movement?

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Data Portability for Good

NTEN

The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive shaded map of the US. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services.

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Social Business Relationship Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I wonder if you can map specific tools to specific stages? The second stage is recognition.