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Five new Android features coming this winter

The Verge

Google is rolling out five new Android features in the weeks ahead that enhance Maps navigation, Gboard emoji mashups, Voice Access, Google Play audiobooks, and Nearby Share file sharing. Next up, Google is expanding those custom emoji sticker mashups available on Gboard from a few hundred unique combinations to more than 14,000.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. Not the tales itself, but the method used. Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While recent research suggests that the first method may not be as effective because of “ group think ” and produce fewer ideas, you can combine the best of both approaches. Other Brainstorming Methods and Techniques. M odify: What materials, processes, methods can you modify to solve a problem? during the meeting.

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. WHY did I remove ???Non Non Commercial???

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When participants collected data, they learned a great deal about data collection processes but not so much about the overall scientific method. Online, this may mean participants creating their own mashups or using organizational data to construct visualizations.

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Fundraising Ideas

Tech Soup

When you are fundraising for a cause, there is not a specific way or style to do it; there are hundreds of methods. Think battle of the bands, a concert, a DJ mashup, or a party that people will pay to attend or have a karaoke night where attendees not only pay to participate but can donate to see your staff sing!

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# NTEN used a hybrid crowdsourcing approach to solicit panel proposals for its NTC 2011, similar in design and approach to the method SXSW has used. 2) Crowd Creation. Conferences have taken this approach to shaping their agenda. Was it more efficient? (4)

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