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The Ingenuity of the American People - White House OMB Blog - 0 views

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    Today, we celebrate the ingenuity of the American people with the announcement of Datamasher.org as the winner of the Apps for America contest. Datamasher.org provides the public with a simple interface to mash up government datasets to analyze and visual
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5 Key Questions When Selecting a Social Media Firm | StarTribune.com - 0 views

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    Attempts to separate "guy with Twitter account" from social media consultants
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'Apps For America' Shows Innovative Ways to Display Government Data - Poynter Online - 0 views

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    Datamasher also has the potential to be a journalistic tool -- a starting point for stories. If you suspect crime and poverty are increasing in your state, check it out.
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Article Skimmer by The New York Times - 0 views

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    Prototype article viewer for NY Times
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FutureLab - 0 views

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    From Chronicle of Philanthropy: As part of an effort to create a broad discussion about the future of the nonprofit world, Independent Sector has created a new Web site. The organization, which is a Washington association of about 600 charities and grant
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These crusaders bring transparency to government - Latimes.com - 0 views

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    Government pooh-bahs live by the credo Information is Power. Here are a few of the guerrillas working to overthrow the resulting dictatorship.
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More on obesity, geography, and class - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Gary Chapman, of the University of Texas, has created this way of envisioning the relationship between income and obesity. Concept: the shading varies with the obesity rate divided by median household income. This is a not-immediately-obvious way to prese
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Twitter, Facebook help Philippines flood survivors flee | csmonitor.com - 0 views

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    The estimated number of people displaced in the Philippines by a devastating storm on Saturday has doubled, to more than 435,000, according to government officials. Officials are calling tropical storm Ketsana, which dumped a month's worth of rain in six
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Tweeting Ugandan gorillas make friends online | Oddly Enough | Reuters - 0 views

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    BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST, Uganda (Reuters) - Lurking deep in the mist-glazed forests of east Africa, Uganda's mountain gorillas are preparing to 'tweet' for their survival. With the launch on Saturday of the "Friend a Gorilla" campaign, human fans will
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See What's Out There » Blog Archive » YouTube's Game-Changing New Feature for... - 0 views

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    Important new feature on YouTube for nonprofits - you can now make annotation links that point directly to non-youtube URLs.
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The multitasking myth - Computerworld Blogs - 0 views

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    Interesting new research on how effective (or not) multitasking is. I know it's a way of life, but good food for thought re making us more productive...
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Social Networking Entrepreneur Taking It To The 'Next Level' - Venture Capital Dispatch... - 0 views

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    Steve Ressler, a former IT auditor with the Department of Homeland Security, spent a lot of time studying the world's terrorist networks. He later developed a keen interest in different kinds of networks, and founded Young Government Leaders, Washington,
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The Top Five Misconceptions About Social Media | Socialmedia.biz - 0 views

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    In the years that I've been involved in social media, I have heard so many misconceptions and myths about social media that I am certain this article is long overdue. Here is a list of the top five misconceptions regarding social media:
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DataMasher: Create MashUps & Visualize US Government Data Sets - Makeuseof.com - 0 views

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    DataMasher is an interesting website which lets citizens visualize and play with the data sets released by US government everyday. The data, which is usually sourced from data.gov, contains stats like poverty rates, unemployment rates, obesity in the US a
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Drupal v. SharePoint from a Developer's Viewpoint | Mediacurrent - 0 views

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    From my vantage point, I have identified six major differences between SharePoint and Drupal. They include: 1. Setting up a local development environment is difficult and expensive. 2. Setting up an efficient development/deployment process is cumbe
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Google AJAX APIs Playground - 0 views

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    Useful programming resource for understanding Google's API - with full example code.
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DudeAmI's iCalendar Date Modifier - 0 views

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    This tool allows you to input an Ical URL and you can change the time zone so it shows appropriately in your gcal. Great because gcal doesn't currently let you do this for calendars you import.
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DataMasher is a do-it-yourself mashup site - Sacramento Bee - 0 views

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    DataMasher is relatively new site that collects data produced by the federal government (much of it pulled from Data.gov) and makes it available as a downloadable spreadsheet or interactive map.
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Making the most of government data - Joho the Blog - 0 views

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    Washington, DC - The Sunlight Foundation awarded Datamasher.org with the grand prize of $10,000 for Sunlight's Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge. Datamasher.org is a Web application designed by Forum One Communications that lets anyone-no program
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DataMasher: Get Freakonomic On Government Data - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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    If you're a lobbyist / advocate, conspiracy theorist or Freakonomics fan, then you'll love DataMasher. The map-based mash up site just took the Sunlight Foundation's $10,000 grand prize in theApps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge. DataMasher offers u
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