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

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. 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. They were talking about API’s.

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). Be Helpful.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 I hope this will help in understanding how it works. tool to jump in.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. at 12:33 pm I think digital sharecropping works better as an analogy than as an actual analytical insight. When all of those happen, I’ll be the first to sign up. { at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. The Army Research Laboratory in Orlando, Florida (the Silicon Valley of simulation), is, a source tells us, leaning toward specifying xAPI (see below) as the standard for LMS-simulator communication. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. " The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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