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

Amy Sample Ward

There’s a lot happening with Social Actions right now but one bit of news is really exciting, and needs to be highlighted: some incredibly important technical enhancements have recently been made to the Social Actions API. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Social Actions and where does the API come in?

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Charity Hack in London

Amy Sample Ward

Join us 19-20 September 2009 and be part of this extraordinary event. JustGivings new API (available for the first time at this event). MissionFish’s cash giving APIs available for the first time in the UK. These are just some of the APIs that will be featured, there is no limit to the APIs that can be used.

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

for geeks is APIs. These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the wonderful things that has happened since I wrote the Open API whitepaper way back in January, is that finally, vendors are realizing how important openness really is, and are beginning to implement things in a big way. Kintera’s Connect has an API that can do some very important things. The API is SOAP.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This is when actual code is written in the CMS (via module or customization) which calls APIs on the CRM side to perform specific actions, such as adding records, syncing records, grabbing data, etc. Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. Integration. So what’s the right strategy?

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2009 NTC: Awards Show Wrap Up

NTEN

In the case of Daniel Ben-Horin, the 2009 recipient and co-CEO of Techsoup Global , it's both. The 2009 award was presented to the American Red Cross. Thirty-five developers submitted web applications to the Challenge. This push might be in the form of innovation, or thought leadership.

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Analytics Dashboards: Which tool is Right For Your Nonprofit? 

Whole Whale

Integration : The best dashboards can be easily integrated with other software applications your nonprofit uses, such as your CRM or email marketing platform. API : An application programming interface (API) is a set of rules and protocols that developers can use to access data and functionality from an external system.