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A Roundup of New Year's Predictions, Resolutions, and Best Of 2008

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. They were talking about API’s.

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Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from Election 2008

NTEN

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. and aggregates them. Tools you can Use.

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Dial 988 – Why Nonprofits Will Be Using It

Whole Whale

since 2008, with 44,000 Americans losing their lives through suicide in 2020, which was just two years ago. The Inclusivity Tool can help aggregate mentions of “911,” so you can adjust the language if it makes sense. As stated in the research by PEW.

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Things We Like (October 2008)

NTEN

If you watch Colbert , you've probably already been to FiveThirtyEight , an in-depth poll aggregation site. Good thing the Twitter Vote Report didn't: tweet your voting experience to help others avoid problems. Along with RealClearPolitics , it keeps political junkies better fed than a zombie in WalMart's brains aisle. Pumpkin cookies !

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Things We Like (November 2008)

NTEN

Google.org has developed a way to track flu outbreaks based on aggregated search data. (Hey, things we like don't need to relate to NPTech when they're this revolutionary.). YouTube as a political tool. Now, will somebody please mash-up a system that sends us alerts when people nearby start to get phlegmy?

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. The Award, which recognizes exceptional grantees and helps ensure their long-term sustainability, provides each organization with up to $1.5 million, depending on the size of its budget.

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