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. Nonprofit Tech Blog points to a new report from United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation, " Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use."

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

LOLnptech Lot's of member news and activity online this week, so, in the order that I ran across them: NTEN member organization United Nations Foundation was mentioned in a Forbes article discussing ways nonprofits are raising money in tough times. Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz nten members.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. Charity Dynamics helped National Trust for Historic Preservation use open and social technology to re-engage their members and community. Voting's open till Monday!

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MARCH 12, 2009

Oustanding Online Campaigns (National and local). Best Animation or Mashup . Tags: NPTech awards online politics. 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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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. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., There are thousands of nonprofits -- including Ashoka, National Coalition of the Aging, United Nations World Food Programme, and Points of Light -- already using cloud computing to run every type of software application imaginable.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. Youth Summit, NonProfit Coordinating Committee NY, National Conference on Volunteering and Service, National Red Cross Conference for Volunteers, and as a guest lecturer at NYU and NYIT. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org.

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