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Great reads from around the web on November 25th

Amy Sample Ward

" Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009 – Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media – "Over the past six months, I've been collaborating on a book with Allison Fine, titled "The Networked Nonprofit" and we've been sifting through stories, research, and seeing many patterns. ."

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source. One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. .’ But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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

Amy Sample Ward

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. And what would you describe as the social definition of Social Actions API – the purpose? The Social Actions API now uses a tool called Zemanta to apply these processes when searching the actions contained in the dataset.

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s definitely a thing to watch. It’s called Orion’s Arm , which is a huge collaborative science fiction world-building project. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. I’m going to watch this pretty carefully.