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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

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Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field? We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Be Helpful. This is big.

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Open Social != Open Data

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If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? Be Helpful. O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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How to choose a CRM

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. I also wrote a software choice worksheet , that can help with the process of looking at a wide variety of tools.

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

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It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Ushahidi was a NetSquared Mashup Challenge winner in the fabled 2008 Netsquared conference in Santa Clara, California.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

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The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

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several midwives used Ushahidi to self-organize and help pregnant women cope with being unable to make it to the hospital to deliver. Ushahidi's tools help others act for transparency, justice, crisis response, and human rights. TechSoup has been working since the 1980s to help nonprofits develop their technology capacity.

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. applications, provided their data via open APIs, it would help other nonprofits, and the sector as a whole. Be Helpful. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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