Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2009

My colleague Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web gave me a sneak peak at their Guide to Online Community Management Report and Aggregator. The report condenses and summarizes the best thinking about online community management from a cadre of experts - those are online community manager practitioners and gurus.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2021

The security researcher who discovered the Krack Wi-Fi vulnerability has discovered a slew of other flaws with the wireless protocol most of us use to power our online lives ( via Gizmodo ).

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

In many emerging economies capitalism has slowly developed out of the shadows of communism, feudalism or dictator-style mashup economies, and its current incarnations haven’t entirely shaken themselves of the dusty vestiges of the past. The distrust that haunts both the Tanzanian and Ecuadorian tech scenes is not without precedent.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2021

Senate bill would make it easier to cancel a subscription online after a free trial. Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android. How Republicans and Democrats are gearing up to fight tech monopolies. House lawmakers introduce five bipartisan bills to unwind tech monopolies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! 2. Treat your online strategy as mission-critical. And the results have been impressive.

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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.) Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Some of that work may still be online, and in fact much of it may be, but no Facebook application is going to install solar panels on my roof - though I could fundraise for those panels in the same space.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

Some drinks that are popular online have even made their way to the menu, and it seems like Starbucks actually keeps an eye on what’s happening on TikTok. The story even includes a fun term for the phenomenon: “appuccino,” a mashup of app and Frappuccino, the popular coffee drink that often finds itself the victim of many, many add-ons.

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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 Be Helpful.

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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? Be Helpful.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2009

Considering many of you are advocacy organizations, you might be interested in the Golden Dot Awards: Golden Dot Awards recognize achievement in online politics. Nominees must have campaigned, organized, created political media, or conducted advocacy online. Online Politician of the Year. Best Animation or Mashup .

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A whole range of businesses and services depend on access to Twitter’s data, including analytics firms like Spiketrap and Social Market Analytics , single-use bots like the House of Lords Hansard bot and Emoji Mashup bot , and power-user tools like TweetDelete , Block Party , and Tokimeki Unfollow.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2009

We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. Tags: Digital Divide Online Activism Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 In short, Ushahidi aggregates information from text messages and other media, presenting a clearer picture of a crisis situation as it emerges. Tools Web 2.0

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NTEN

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. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Voting's open till Monday! Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg: Sometimes it's WHO you know ;).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. Last year's Mashup winner — Ushahidi — is the topic of the first case study. Tags: Digital Divide Grants for Technology Multimedia & Graphics Online Activism Tech Planning Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Honda: Online tools like DabbleDB or Google Spreadsheets also allow sharing data and even building simple charts or applications with them. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The fine people at Social Actions have announced a new contest that hopes to further social change (the hoped-for final result), online democracy (the community will vote to determine winners), and abject geekiness (you get to code for a cause). social actions mashup. You have until April 3rd to submit your project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

This campaign melded multiple ideas for a mashup and multiple dimension, campaign approach. This idea is based on the online dating site, “E Harmony.” Here’s what emerged: (Special thanks for Lori Larson for capturing notes that allowed to write this up). Team 1: “Know Your Community: 5 in 10.”.

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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. In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

Gboard is also being updated with 2,000 additional emoji mashups, which combine two existing emoji into stickers that can be posted across a variety of messaging apps and online services. Google says the feature works on-device and joins its existing spell-checking functionality.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Having an online event registration and payment solution in place helps with more than managing the details, it also helps you accept donations from people who could not attend. Gather an audience for a silent auction or take the auction online and reach a larger audience. General Fundraising Ideas. Hold a music related event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Recently, I reconnected with colleague, Joitske Hulsebosch , who I met in 2005 through Nancy White's Online Community workshop. I did a mashup with social media framing. It reminded of the questions we discussed in the early 1990's about using online collaboration tools for nonprofits. Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Strengthen the bottom line of your nonprofit by providing world-class online solutions. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Stop by the Event 360 booth to meet our team, learn about our online toolkit and enter to win an iPod Touch! in booth 77.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Online, this may be a campaign that is started by a member and then supported and fueled with institutional help. Online, this may mean participants creating their own mashups or using organizational data to construct visualizations.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

He talks about the benefits of both putting book content online *and* also allowing people to engage/comment/mashup the text. And I found especially interesting his mentioning of "what bibliophiles call book discovery.". This would massively improve what bibliophiles call book discovery.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2009

Are you thinking about entering the online world of social media but not sure where to start. Or have you started out in the online world of the blogosphere, twitterverse, vlogosphere or virtual reality but now that you have you are not sure what the right tools are for the job or who should be involved.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Strengthen the bottom line of your nonprofit by providing world-class online solutions. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Stop by the Event 360 booth to meet our team, learn about our online toolkit and enter to win an iPod Touch! in booth 77.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. 2) Crowd Creation.

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NTEN

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. One tactic is going online.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Member News online this week: NTEN member United Nations Foundation is featured in a Forbes article for turning to innovative online strategies -- including YouTube and Twitter -- to raise money in tough economic times. Speaking of turning to online media, has your organization invested in online banner ads?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. There is a comment in the post from Dan McQuillan who has been mulling over measurement of social media from the nonprofit perspective. celebration of shared sensations of change?

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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. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. For example, we (DonorPerfect Online), use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the database engine. Be Helpful.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 1, 2008

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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. Be Helpful.

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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. In this article, we'll look at some examples of nonprofits on the cutting-edge of online mapping and GIS, and how they utilize place-related data to benefit their respective communities.

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