Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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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. To learn more about it, I caught up with Peter earlier this week to get all the details and am excited to share them here first!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions. Social Actions is reaching out to social software tool builders to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. connecting organizations for shared knowledge, partnerships and coalitions. This GreenLiving article asks, “Have Facebook, Twitter and Web 2.0 It’s not going to work.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

How will you share the information? How will you share the results of what you heard? You can read on the web or send messages to your phone or IM client. Share the workload - should not just be one person. Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. List Five Ways You Plan To Use the Information. Internal Process.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The team conceived "DataMasher" -- a web app that allows users to "mash up" two sets of state data. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Data is the next buzz-word after Web 2.0. Enhances your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

I gave a keynote about the Human Side of Data for Good and facilitated a mini-innovation lab to brainstorm creative ideas around the challenge of communicating about the value of shared data and becoming the community knowledge center for shared data for donors, nonprofits, and other stakeholders. I was blown away! Data Facilitation'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

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. Share Alike??? Share Alike??? Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. WHY did I remove ???Non

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

Is your community focused on accomplishing a shared agenda? Since all actions are focused on a shared agenda, and will occur on the same day, their cumulative affect is well-positioned to have a much bigger impact in gaining attention and raising awareness. org Actions are a great example of coordinated events with a shared agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

which was based on Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web 2.0 While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. But I like it so much, for so many reasons, I can't resist sharing it here. The recipe can be passed around and shared.

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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. Click the red box above once the video has loaded to see what I'm talking about (thanks to Jim Spadaccini for sharing). What's a mashup? speak, it's a web application that combines data from more than one source to create a new tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

TechSoup recently published a FAQ about " Borrowing Images from the Web. My approach has been to stick with Creative Commons licensed Share Alike 2.5 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

’ [Your captcha is asking me to type a slightly naughty word) 2 Mr Web Service 09.25.08 Personally I love open source and think it’s part of what the web’s about. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I did a mashup with social media framing. Lucy Bernhol z, who shares my interest in contextualization, pointed me to this essay about artifacts and change describing the change brought about by the introduction of the typewriter into the workplace. I arrived with my concept of Web 2.0 Joitske recommend Learning To Change.

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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. into web pages as in-line text (searchable and cut-n-paste-able). -in with those sorta annoying little icons for "sharing" with Digg, StubbledUpon, etc. with feature for people to comment on the text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The focus has been to develop practice and share insights on networked effectiveness. 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. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

And the good news is that if you've never created web videos before and don't have the big bucks to hire a professional, there is enough time to learn. In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. Next ManorMeta Mashup coming soon, enjoy this for now! ~in

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

We asked, " How many whales did you save with that web site ?" and of course, we can track web site or blog referrals from Twitter (traffic) and possibly sign ups for an action. The play on words with the title reminded of something a few years ago when nonprofit techies were looking at technology outcomes. What does it mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. Openness - ????A It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. Jim told me that initially more people had viewed the photos in flickr versus the exhibition web site. In this way, photos could be shared internally without worries. website with The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology we???ve

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Azavea (formerly Avencia) in booth 54.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. In other words, data sharing. You're going to be in the business of putting data into the hands of your staff so that they can mix it up with partners or web services and make cool new things.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Azavea (formerly Avencia) in booth 54.

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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 ! Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. It also offers groups where members can share slide decks. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It is an interesting argument against Windows and the larger Web (we kid), but does raise notable points regarding mobile security and consumer expectations. Data from PitchBook indicates that 2021 turbocharged the pace at which startups raised capital, yes, but also pushed the prices paid for startup shares to the stratosphere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 or more like web 1.0?) " Web 2.0, Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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) Contact him at mhowes@mediamatters.org.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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) Contact him at mhowes@mediamatters.org.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Sharing Authority.or Who's sharing authority and how? And now, on to the exciting bits.

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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) Your ideas and feedback will make a real impact.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Instead, Pinterest now sees its potential as a platform for creators who can share their ideas in video format — whether that’s recipes, DIY craft projects, home décor ideas, beauty tutorials, fashion ideas, or anything else.

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Care2

JULY 17, 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) Your ideas and feedback will make a real impact.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

A lot of museums--and web, radio, etc--are pursuing projects in which visitors share their personal stories around a topic, whether that be broad and profound ( storycorps.net ) or light and specific ( map mashup of Overheard in NY ). I thought my web journey ended there. Yes, some of you are doing this --please, share.

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