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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) And what does “Linked Open Data” refer to?

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) On some Joolma forum, I read a reference to vtiger and Joomla, but that was from 2005!

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. open source. December 2007 (11).

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Research Friday: Volunteering and Financial Statements - What’s Missing?

ASU Lodestar Center

There is a free online open-source software program that supports the development of these Socioeconomic Statements. Sources: ^ [1] Mook, Quarter, Richmond, “ What Counts: Social Accounting for Nonprofits and Cooperatives ”, 2nd ed., Sigel Press, 2007, pg. Faculty of Education, York University. ^ [5] Alan J.

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Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. We will fill the void.

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Varied Technology Links (only a little zen)

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) It’s the best flavor of Linux out there right now in terms of ease of use. If so, this is FUD. Be Helpful.