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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Developers, consultants, experts and users all like to weigh in with their predictions for 2009’s big developments, innovations and attempts for the coming year. I hadn’t blogged about it. So, here are my 2009 Predictions for the Social Web. Mashups are great. Mashups are great. And I realized.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time.

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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. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. I have dreams of applications that combine, say, available bed space in shelters and soup kitchens, all mapped for people to find.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

communities (and readers of this blog) have heard about the federal government's Data.gov initiative (and the winner of a certain Apps for America competition using these data sets). Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009.

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief.  A 3 day walk).

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m not going to go through everything they said at all – I think a recording will be available on the NTEN blog or site at some point soon, I expect. There was also a backchannel chat room, which was really useful and interesting. (I I hope NTEN can post the transcript.) It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

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