Join us for the San Francisco Net Tuesday on September 9 featuring
Involver: How Nonprofits Can Create Video Campaigns for Social Networks. Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Making Technology Available to Everyone - Interview with John Lyman from Google.org
John Lyman from Google.org talks to us about how social benefit organizations are using Google Apps to enhance their operations and collaborate.
Our goal is really for non-profits to have access to the same technologies that Fortune 500 companies have… And the way that you do that, basically, is you make the same technology available to everyone, which is what Google has done.
Jed Sundwall: What are you working on with Google.org?
Low-Cost, Shared GIS Resource for Advocates
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Create an easy to use template and engine that will lower the cost and technological barriers that advocates face in using GIS in their issue activism.
Foik Micro-Philanthropy Network
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
Foik aims to do to philanthropy what eBay did to the auction house: increase participation by helping people connect with people.
GMap Mash-Ups and Advocacy: 20 Years of Hospital Closures by Race and Income
When we talk about health care policy in America, very rarely do we mention the roles that class and race play in determining our access to and the quality of health care that we receive. At The Opportunity Agenda, one of our major goals is to increase awareness about these issues and to advocate for solutions that expand equal access to quality health care for all.
To that end, today we are launching a new project - Health Care That Works.
Health Care That Works is a Google Maps mash-up designed to visually illustrate the economic and racial disparities that exist in New York City's health care system, and drive all New Yorker's of conscience to take action by emailing their elected officials.
CivicSpace: Community Date on Maps-- on small part of a platform for Social Change
What if you could present virtually any data easily on the web? So easily that your average nonprofit employee could just upload a data file and have all the technical details worked out for them?
Generate crime maps to talk about why the police need to spend time in your neighborhood.
Zack Rosen shows us how its done today:
http://www.zacker.org/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine
Pretty easy, but not quite to the level of simplicity to be useful to tens of thousands of organizations. This is the type of ease of use we are seeking to build into CivicSpace On Deamand-- hide all the Drupal power and complexity.
Using Community Walk to Visualize Our Case Studies
The Net Squared in Action section of this site is an inspiring set of profiles written about non-profit inovators and their work with new web tools. One of those case studies is a mapping tool called Community Walk, a tool that uses Google Maps to alow users to create their own maps of any community of interest or other set of geographic locations. I thought it would only make sense to use Community Walk in some way regarding the list of groups profiled in the Net Squared case studies.
