Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 27, 2010
I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. Last March I met Joe Solomon and the Social Actions team through twitter.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
Penelope Rivas, Communications and Social Media Intern at Volunteer Match, shares her dream for nonprofits to execute more daring and audacious social media marketing campaigns. An imaginative mashup of old traditions and new vision is Marion Conway’s dream, and she sharers some concrete how-tos.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 29, 2010
In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. A Google maps, Twitter and Foursquare mashup that show’s where your event participants are checking in on a map and what they’re talking about). Track volunteering efforts. They're running it in connection with a show promotion.
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2011
We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. That’s today. A few years ago, we had just a handful of pioneering platforms in microphilanthropy.
NTEN
OCTOBER 28, 2009
Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Michaela Hackner and Sandy Smith, Forum One Communications.
NTEN
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. Making (and Mapping) An Impact Where It's Needed Most - Humaninet.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 7, 2010
As far back as the 1880s, scientists have led “citizen science” projects in which amateurs are invited to participate in formal scientific research by volunteering to count birds, measure soil quality, or document non-native plant species. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.
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