Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2009

Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the websites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. Test-drive submitted applications to the Change The Web Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. Incorporating the use of a location-based social networks seems a natural for museums, given the move towards more participatory institutions and how museums have embraced mobile.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 1, 2007

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

As the numbers of users grow, so do your number of friends, and then in turn so does the frequnecy of news items, status updates, and general calls to action for your network. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Good question.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

Foursquare is a location-based social network.      Think of it as a social network where your status up is not what you're doing, but where you are.   In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. Photo by Neatonjr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

tools - blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, and content tagging - and a remarkable 35% said they were already using all six of the tools. While it didn't include tagging, it did include mashups; the other five were the same. Fully 89% of the CIOs said they had adopted at least one of six prominent Web 2.0 hat tip Seb Chan

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. You can also search on different terms using Tweetscan here's Philanthropy Mr. Tweet finds influencers in your network you should follow (use this after you have built up your following list). Here's a few ideas to get started. People who attended TED. Twitter Packs - Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. Does your community focus on networking with learning & sharing? We need real world events to be a central part of our online organizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

During the Webinar with Michael Hughes of See3, the question of fair use came up, specifically around the mashup that was made to promote NTEN video content. Specifically, since the mashup uses clips from a copyrighted Frank Capra film, is this a copyright violation or an example of fair use ?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California. It supports up to 20 wireless connections and has 16 GB of storage, so it can work as a backup network drive. I first heard about this from Marnie Webb, who co-founded NetSquared. Find out more about this here.

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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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2011

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

It can be an application for any web enabled device -- IPhone, web site, blogs, Facebook, or other social networks. Firefox Ubiquity Command : A Firefox mashup that lets you highlight any phrase as your browse the web and find related ways to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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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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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Network administration and help desk tasks are going to be a LOT easier. As we're forced to decrease energy consumption and increase access to data and critical applications, we will have to manage our networks more efficiently. This means creating more automated systems for managing network resources.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! in booth 25.

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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. As your personal network grows, what tools do you use to support relationship building?

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! in booth 25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? Are older groups evolving quickly enough?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2009

Many find the the social media space a little overwhelming as it is clear the landscape changes on a daily basis and is filled with strange terms, for example what is astroturfing and what exactly is a mashup - does it have anything to do with mash potatoes ? Tags: Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. SQL is a bit fiddly at the best of times, and if we move past SaaS to DaaS (Data as a Service) it frees up a *lot* more time to share ideas on the functionality front. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Networking ???

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It can be hard trying to get people in your network and community to donate or get involved in fundraising activities. 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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Several NTEN members added their comments to the Chronicle of Philanthropy article , "The Perils of Raising Small Sums on Online Networks", including new NTEN Board member Nancy Schwartz. You can probably guess where NTEN members came down on this debate. :).

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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. Joining your LinkedIn group adds your organization to my professional profile, and allows easier in-network messaging. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. Collect my cell and there is a 90% chance I open your text message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

"    Use of Points When Selecting Tools:   He only gives participants a choice of 18 tools and it is a wide range (more technical tools like Drupal, Joombla, and Mashups), but they have a budget of 10 points - so this naturally leads to a discussion of priorities.  

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

“To get this result, there are two trained [convolutional neural networks] to perform semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation and Instance Segmentation,” Vochi CEO Ilya Lesun had explained to TechCrunch in a July interview. Image Credits: VOCHI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. NpTech Conversations. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. | View | Upload your own.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., No network necessary. Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook). Amazon S3, Google Checkout, Google Maps, PayPal). So, what can you do in the cloud?

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