Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2010

My colleagues at Ushahidi have already swung into action and are mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who arenot familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Tags: maps. Disclaimer: I'm on the board).

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VisionLink

JANUARY 29, 2015

Due to the potentially historic damage of this storm, VisionLink successfully created a unique geo-tagged map to chart--in real-time--the damage reports from those in the storm''s path. To see and learn how to share the map, please visit: www.WinterStormMap.com Who is talking about VisionLink''s Winter Storm Map?

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

On X, for example, people often tag Grok a chatbot built into the platformto ask follow-up questions about trending stories. AI still needs a map But for that vision of AI and news to work, context is everything: In other words, the machines still need a map. Were already seeing early signs of this behavior.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 20, 2017

Well, if you have, then it’s time to check out heat-mapping, programs that help you gain insights into user interactions such as where on your site they click, what specific areas they explore more than others and generally how they use your site for their purposes.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 17, 2021

It presents itself in the form of permission-based tools, such as device IDs, cookies, Geo-location, and IP mapping. Google Tag Manager : This is an excellent tool from Google, and it’s free. With the Google Tag Manager, you can link Instagram, Google Analytics, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 15, 2013

Copy/paste in from your spreadsheet, map the columns and go. Even better, if it’s a field that would normally require an ID, such as Record Type or Owner ID, you can map to the name instead! Tagged: applications , Apsona , Common Ground , data , Nonprofit , reporting , Salesforce.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Once I started clicking around and adding Gadgets and experimenting with Buzz, Reader, Themes, Maps, Gmail, Google News and hopefully soon Google Voice , it was immediately clear that I was going to start using iGoogle and Gmail much more often. Tags: Google Google Buzz Social Media iGoogle.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

During this time, I've help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. Community Map. Why : Why map your community? Content Map.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

How to proceed: VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch There’s a strong psychological element as well with C2C marketplaces having long suffered from a need to commoditize trust (whereas established brands benefit from an implicit degree of consumer trust).

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NCE Social Media

JULY 6, 2010

Once example is Mention Map. Here’s an example: Mention Map for ACHIEVA’s Twitter feed. It works by looking as hastags you use and connections your Twitter account has to create a visual image of your “map&#. Tags: Tools twitter cloud Mention Map Apps. How is this helpful for you?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. Can’t wait! tools in context.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 23, 2010

I chose to Allow (obviously), but I also went into my Facebook Privacy Settings and made it so only I could post my location on Facebook, and that friends could not tag me in their Facebook Places “Check-ins&#. Tags: Facebook Mobile Technology. 3) Search for your organization from your organization’s location.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

During the workshop, we will present traditional community organizing principles and methods of campaign mapping. Come to the session with your online campaign ideas, and get ready to have fun mapping out a campaign! Tags: liveblogging 10ntc community building events online campaigns online community.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Content Map template (remember to recreate your own as everyone is looking at this template and probably doesn’t want to delete to all your content if it is saved publicly!). Tags: presentation socialmedia webtools. There were some great questions in the session and I promised to send out links to some resources.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Tags: fundraising maps mobile disaster haiti nten red cross the extraordinaries ushahidi. How can we do that?

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

More than 250 million people use Snapchat’s built-in map to see where their friends are in the world. The map interface was recently upgraded to a main tab inside the app, and today, Snap is adding a new feature that’ll surface popular places it thinks you may want to visit.

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 1, 2023

We implement a Spark structured streaming stateful mapping function to handle temporal proximity correlations in cyber security logs Image by Robert Wilson from Pixabay This is the 4th article of our series. Similarly, our flatMapWithGroupState will accumulate tags (evaluated true/false Sigma expressions) and later release them.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Community Mapping. Community Mapping helps you identify not just the various segments of your audience, but also create a clear picture of which tools/platforms are associated with those groups and which messages are best to target where. You can see an example of a dashboard by visiting my public Nonprofit Tech Dashboard.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

I want it to exist, but at the same time, I’m struggling to imagine the vehicle finding a market, when its $10,000 price tag buys a lot of other cool transportation options. Startups and VC. Google is increasing its bid for being the first place people go for discovery and planning pastimes.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

The 2010 Social Networking Map / Flowtown (@flowtown) – I love maps and I work in social media; so I always love the maps of social media! Here is an updated version of XKCD's Map of Online Communities; with updated numbers and networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Tags: scholar training materials. Last November, I had the pleasure of leading a workshop for a 100 Silicon Valley nonprofit organizations in hosted by Compasspoint and generously supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The workshop.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

Google Doubles Its Cartographers As Maps Continues To Go Wiki-Style - “As an online free mapping service, Google Maps is a great product. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Check out the great examples/case studies! But it’s lacking in certain parts of the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam How do you transform it into charts, graphs, and maps that will help your audience understand the data and move them to take action?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 31, 2009

This module provides the basic salesforce API connection (via SOAP), and includes field mapping, and basic import/export. Tags: CMS CRM Data Nonprofit Tech Web Tools drupal integration nptech salesforce. There are several contributed modules: salesforce – main module, with API, node, and user integration possibilities.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 30, 2009

The guide, produced independently by research and analysis firm Freeform Dynamics, provides guidance for where to start in greening an organization and maps out a pragmatic, yet comprehensive course of action ranked according to expense and difficulty of implementation. Tags: TechSoup.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

." Third sector infrastructure organisations Social Media Map - RSS Feed - TALK Project - TALK - This is SO cool! I love maps, and I love RSS - and here's a combination! You tell us, we add to the map." Tags: roundup bookmarks. " And, you can subscribe to the RSS feed of submissions! ." Check it out.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2009

PHILANTHROPY 2173: Mapping the social economy - Great blog post on using design for philanthropy. If you like visualizing inforamation and maps, check it out. Map it, mash it up and otherwise make use of this unparalleled online resource. Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from April 14th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Otherwise, you waste a lot of time creating meaningless, but cool maps. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

I love maps and the stories they can help us tell. Check it out: "We're building the first up-to-date, interactive map of today's changing nonprofit landscape. If you're a member of the foundation or grant-making community, engaged in nonprofit work, or just interested in mapping and social change, please join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2010

View California Coast Trip in a larger map This holiday rather than working, we decided to take a brief vacation and travel down the beautiful California coast. Tags: crowdsourcing. Only problem was by Christmas night we realized that we hadn't even opened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Then click here to start a Vigil this weekend -- and add it to the global map of thousands (<- there may already be one!). Tags: maps netaction. The call to action: Will you spread this Facebook postcard by clicking here -- and then click "Share.".

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The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2020

SmartThings Find uses maps and augmented reality features to help people track down their missing gear. The SmartThings Find app will show users the location of their devices on a map, just the same as similar services like Apple’s Find My software. Image: Samsung.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

View MacBookPro Travelogue in a larger map This map show the route that a new MacBook Pro made from a factory in China to Arizona. Colleague Alan Levine customized a google map. What's even better is that the software, google maps is free. Tags: maps nptech nptech tools visual thinking. What's out that?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

You can go to a map and see what's already been done in the district. Tags: Peer Water Exchange clean water Blue Planet Run water BPR PWX. Wondering about whether a proposed project duplicates one already built? Apparently this happens a fair amount. I'm sure we need more approaches like PWX in other fields.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 27, 2010

The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. The real value to organizations is that they now have a dynamically updated map they can embed on their web site. So we are starting to map social entrepreneurs with the hopes that they might be able to make more of an impact working together than apart.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

I think there’s a lot of potential for hyper local search and the power that comes with geo-tags/data. Creating a map or other aggregate of local resources, conversations, news and so on (even if it was done in a dashboard ) could help your community and help position your organization as the hub. I’d love to hear it!

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