Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

Still, there are hindrances to the overall development of the ecosystem, including under-developed infrastructure, limitations of the education system, lack of protection for intellectual property, all of which found their place within JP’s analysis of the problem.

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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

The best answer I can give (without spending the entire brainstorming, strategizing, and working in person) is that Facebook is a place to connect, and round up supporters. The engagement takes place outside of Facebook. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2008

The last leg of the journey was to attend the Netsquared Conference (N2Y3) where three winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge were selected by conference participants. I had the pleasure to do a formal interview with Erik Hersman from Ushahidi which took first place. (I First Place ($25,000) ??? Second Place ($15,000) ???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

But they seem to realize that the key to their success is being open, and they are doing their best to move that into as many places as possible. We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Why is this good news for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  Shelley notes in her post the reason why they decided to explore FourSquare: As simply as I can put this, Foursquare is about place and identifying yourself through that.  In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. They're running it in connection with a show promotion.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And are hats are off to second and third place finishers govpulse.us Then you can share them with your friends and comment on the mashups of others. A few interesting mashups include: High School Graduation vs. Guns in Household , % Total Population in Prison , and: People per US Representative. and thisweknow.org.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

The Tableau Blueprint Assessment is based on Data Culture research and Tableau Blueprint —a mashup of analytics best practices and the expertise of thousands of customers, curated to help our customers turn repeatable processes into core capabilities. What processes are in place to provide training on analytics best practices?

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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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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

There's also a second place award of $5,000, four third place awards of $1,000 each, and 10 honorable mentions at $100 each. Here's the lowdown: Apps for America will award developers for the best applications, based on data from Sunlight and its partners, that make Congress more accountable, interactive, and transparent. >

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

We keep running into each other in many different places. 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. CreativeCommonsReadWriteCulture03.jpg

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. He has created a " Mashup Page " with the sub-title: Dr. Mashup or: Why educators should learn to stop worrying and love the remix. site that has photos, etc.,

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

He or she has created one of the most innovative, enjoyable mashups out of a cultural icon. What's a mashup? One fun example is overplot , a mashup that takes quotes overheard in New York City ( the data ) and places them on a Google map (the tool), so you can browse the quotations by address.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. As a result, we can say with more confidence what an action is about and where it is taking place. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why.

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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. Winners will receive cash awards of $15,000 (first place), $10,000 (second place), and $5,000 (third place). N2Y4 Registration is Open!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I got a message from one of my readers, Ashley Messick, on Facebook about a recent post about Social Actions Twitter for Good Facebook Group and TwitterFeed Mashup I wanted to Digg post about Save the World with Twitter and wasn't quite sure how to categorize it when submitting. Wouldn't it be nice to have a place in Digg for nonprofit news?

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Now, patches, upgrades, and other tweaks happen in one place. Data, when handled properly, becomes intelligence -- and intelligence makes us better at our jobs, which makes the world a better place! We're moving to a place where a phone call can become an email and an IM can become a phone call. Gartner agrees.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Databricks calls the technology a data “lakehouse,” a mashup of data lake and data warehouse. In Ghodsi’s view, combining structured and unstructured data in a single place with the ability for customers to execute data science and business-intelligence work without moving the underlying data is a critical change in the larger data market.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Social media accelerates the crowdsourcing process – it can happen faster.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2020

One of the biggest surprises of the show was the latest Star Wars experience, which takes place in the world of The Sims. 2017 saw the release of a seemingly strange mashup that worked well: Bridge Constructor Portal. The Sims meets Star Wars. Fall Guys is getting a second season. Bridge Constructor meets The Walking Dead.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Online, this may mean participants creating their own mashups or using organizational data to construct visualizations. Science has an answer.

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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. Always start with your audience and what draws them to an event, then tailor your fundraising event to them. Or take this idea to dancing and hold a dance-a-thon.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. Helping People Make Decisions About Place - Movesmart.org. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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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 ?

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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 ! NTC will take place in New Orleans March 19-21.

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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. Chris Brogan tweeted about this blog this morning and I when I read the post it got me thinking.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Twitter releases Safety Mode to more users : It’s no secret that Twitter can be a brutal place at times. And today in operating-system mashups : Google wants to bring Chrome OS to your Mac or PC , and Microsoft is rolling out support for Amazon’s app store for Windows 11. Perhaps it will help. “The

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Write your word on a sticky note and place it on the flip chart. Ask each small group to share their sticky note brainstorm by placing the post-it notes on the flip chart, organized in different themes and clusters. In addition, here are a few more techniques and facilitation playbooks to explore : MashUp Brainstorm Activity.

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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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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

The Tableau Blueprint Assessment is based on Data Culture research and Tableau Blueprint —a mashup of analytics best practices and the expertise of thousands of customers, curated to help our customers turn repeatable processes into core capabilities. What processes are in place to provide training on analytics best practices?

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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. Whatever form it takes, make it a priority to get the right systems and workflows in place to collect and sync your supporters' data. . By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. It’s time to throw the nonprofit tech dept some love.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 11, 2006

Relatively unskilled developers will just mashup a bunch of enterprise services and -voila! Darryl Taft, writing in eweek , suggests that the future software developer will be rather like a bricklayer, just putting software bricks in place, one on top of the other, whistling as he works. mission critical software applications.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2009

While the practice of using images to convey meaning is nothing new to humans, dating back to the earliest cave drawings, putting data into visual representations seems to have taken on a new life in this day and age where mashups are king on the internet. Below are some links to a great collection of data visualizations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

If they’re interested in learning more about a place, they can click to send a text message to the agent, who can list properties on Playhouse for free. Users can also view listings on a map, then click to see a video about the home. If Playhouse facilitates a sale, the app gets a cut of the transaction.

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