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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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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual. As one attendee put it to me, he can always go to everyone's blog and find out what they're working on. I think this is my third or fourth Foo Camp, and the energy around public uses of technology was palpable.

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2009 Golden Dot Awards: Voting is Open

NTEN

Winners will be announced on Thursday, April 16, and the winners will be honored at the 2009 Politics Online Conference (April 20 - 21). Vote here for the 2009 Golden Dot award winners. Best Candidate Blog. Best Animation or Mashup . It looks like there are about 20 award categories, including: Technology Impact Moment.

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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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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How to choose a CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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

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