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

Amy Sample Ward

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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Great reads from January 14th through January 15th

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New Marketing Summit 2008 - Events in San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, USA & Milan, Italy. Speak up now, these services could be a big part of your experience on the web soon and they are being planned and built as we speak." Do what you do in different networks/platforms but all from one centralized space. "What

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

"The first phase of this database of nonprofit collaboration models (currently consisting of the 176 nominations deemed eligible for The Collaboration Prize in 2008) contains the information submitted by each nominator in response to specific questions about the nominated collaboration. " Check it out!

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Women in Technology: 2 Ways you CAN get Involved!

Amy Sample Ward

While the 2008 Women Who Tech TeleSummit was a smashing success with over 650 women including Arianna Huffington and Joan Blades defying the stereotype that the tech world belongs to pocket-protector toting guys hooked on sci-fi and video games, 2009 will be even better. We want to hear about it. Submit your panel ideas at here.

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Interview: Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Real Time Web Report

Amy Sample Ward

The underlying technologies used in those kinds of circumstances are now being integrated into all kinds of other websites because real-time delivery of information changes the user experience radically and offers all kinds of benefits. Probably middle of 2008. When did RWW start focusing on the real-time Web?

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

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We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report.

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Collaborative Technologies for Social Impact: How Survivors Connect leverages the web and you can, too!

Amy Sample Ward

The experiences and stories of survivors were and always are my call to action,” Aashika told me. In 2008, Aashika graduated from the University of California, Berkeley; she is now working on her Masters in Philosophy in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK where she’s a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.