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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? was difficult.

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ATTN Nonprofits: Major Changes Coming Soon to Facebook Fan Pages

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Scheduled to occur sometime between late 2009 and early 2010, some major changes are coming to Facebook Fan Pages. But small nonprofits are going have a harder time with the new Pages, at the very least initially, because: 1) Status Updates showing up in the News Feed to all fans is no longer guaranteed.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. 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.

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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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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenSocial is a set of APIs. OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript. It’s aimed primarily at developers.

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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. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 4:31 pm Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 25, 2008 09.25.08 Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions. The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. {