Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. The best answer I can give (without spending the entire brainstorming, strategizing, and working in person) is that Facebook is a place to connect, and round up supporters. Good question.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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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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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Now, patches, upgrades, and other tweaks happen in one place. Data, when handled properly, becomes intelligence -- and intelligence makes us better at our jobs, which makes the world a better place! We're moving to a place where a phone call can become an email and an IM can become a phone call. Gartner agrees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Social media accelerates the crowdsourcing process – it can happen faster.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Users can also view listings on a map, then click to see a video about the home. If they’re interested in learning more about a place, they can click to send a text message to the agent, who can list properties on Playhouse for free. If Playhouse facilitates a sale, the app gets a cut of the transaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

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 fifth stage is intimacy.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2009

While the practice of using images to convey meaning is nothing new to humans, dating back to the earliest cave drawings, putting data into visual representations seems to have taken on a new life in this day and age where mashups are king on the internet. Below are some links to a great collection of data visualizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. What if all those sources were in one place and you didn't have to search for new information on the page you??????d Tourism Campaigns or celebrate a place or county or state. Examples of Mashups. news or web feeds ????

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 How about Digg ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 How about Digg ?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ? Data is also getting stored in new places. public site coming soon) Frankie was able to create compelling maps and graphs of many interesting aspects of these collections in aggregate. Once acquired, the data could have been placed in a public site such as Freebase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Connecting Communities for the Common Good: Owning Online Organizing When community transcends “place,” how do you create dynamic online spaces for activists to connect and take action? Learn direct what it takes to change behavior at the plug, grocery, sushi bar, and tractor. Submitted by Rachel Weidinger. Bring your yoga mat!

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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. One useful new discovery in your inbox every Wednesday! Lemme show ya.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

While I absolutely can't knock the strides that have been made with smart mapping, AI small obstacle avoidance, automatic floor type recognition, and debris level sensors over the past few years, even the latest and greatest robot vacuums are still inanimate objects, not perceptive humans.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Corporate Social Responsibility (Branded) : Detailed Voice Guidance Comes to Google Maps by Google; Kindness is Contagious by Klick Inc. KG; Mars on Earth: Devon Island Mars on Earth: Devon Island by Google Earth and Google Maps. Best User Interface : Google Maps Live View. Best Streaming Service : Pinna; PBS KIDS Video App.

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