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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. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. They were talking about API’s.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. There is a need for that on Twitter, but framing your Twitter story a little more on the positive side can definitely increase your engagement. Be more generous and strategic in your follow back strategy.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

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 SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source.

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Tidbits

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 Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. {

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s definitely worth a listen. I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { I’ll keep you posted on URLs and feeds. { There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf.

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Attend the Boston Email Fundraising Bootcamp (at a Discount!)

NTEN

revealed that while overall fundraising was down 2% in 2008, online fundraising. month of December accounted for 21% of the transaction volume in 2008 -- but. It's definitely time to start thinking about your end-of-year e-mail. will feed you. article published in our September newsletter , Blackbaud's Steve MacLaughlin.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far.