Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! While KaBOOM!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We'll soon be unveiling a full set of tools to let you manage your local event and build a strong local climate group in the lead-up to 24 October." Does your community address local issues? So far, ChangeCamps are full-day events with a focus on bringing together communities to address local issues. Then check out.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

As AT&T said last year, the deal will allow the two companies to “combine WarnerMedia’s storied content library of popular and valuable IP with Discovery’s global footprint, trove of local-language content and deep regional expertise across more than 200 countries and territories.”. From a value perspective, this deal maths out.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2009

Oustanding Online Campaigns (National and local). Best Animation or Mashup . It looks like there are about 20 award categories, including: Technology Impact Moment. Online Politician of the Year. Best Candidate Blog. Best Mobile/SMS Campaign. Best Podcasting Series.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

This campaign melded multiple ideas for a mashup and multiple dimension, campaign approach. Tuesday: Invitation for young professionals to talk about local issues. Here’s what emerged: (Special thanks for Lori Larson for capturing notes that allowed to write this up). Team 1: “Know Your Community: 5 in 10.”.

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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. Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Don't forget to add the search tool.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2007

I think of her work as a mashup between an extremely talented court room artist, journalist, social activist and philanthropist. One such person I've met is Ashely Cecil , a self-described "painting journalist" who describes the world with a paintbrush (and a scanner and a blog.)

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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.

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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. Grab my mailing address and you can send more locally-focused messaging (or junk mail). By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Collect my cell and there is a 90% chance I open your text message. My email gives you 10-15% open rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Growing and Eating Local Foods. Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or API Many people are experimenting with mashups using Google, eBay, Amazon, Windows Live, and Yahoos APIs. Examples of Mashups. Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Ushahidi has developed multiple software tools now that are in use in well over 100 countries and dozens of local languages. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

We got to know Ushahidi's work when it entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May of 2008. Ushahidi has developed multiple software tools now that are in use in well over 100 countries and dozens local languages. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Cultivating the Web: Netroots Action for Grassroots Food: The “organic” nature of social media creates fertile ground for activists, but how can online advocacy move beyond e-actions and Facebook Fan pages, translating to local, on-the-ground actions? Submitted by Leslie Hatfield. Design and Development Powers for the Social Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. In this post, I???m

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. submitted by Rachel Weidinger, Common Knowledge.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Were talking about living off the land, embracing hyper-local materials, an honesty of construction, and taking advantage of everything that nature provided (sightlines, elevation, solar orientation, prevailing winds, water collection, renewable resources, etc.)

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