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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. Again - the GEO site is here: [link].

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. GEO will eventually include data, and data on Google maps, for: 1. Again - the GEO site is here: [link].

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Dipity :: dipity.com. It is a must download!

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Dipity :: dipity.com. What The Trend :: whatthetrend.com.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

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An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Google Maps. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Podcasting.

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Big Data, Philanthropy, and Health at SOCAP13

Tech Soup

CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool. With the Community Commons tools, people can choose to keep their maps and data private or share them with others. Additionally, the actual size of the data came into question.