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

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Social Actions and where does the API come in? The Social Actions project began in 2006. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

As the numbers of users grow, so do your number of friends, and then in turn so does the frequnecy of news items, status updates, and general calls to action for your network. You can make friends and call them into action, but those actions and real engagement will link to and live outside of the platform. Good question.

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Replacing Mobile Advertising with Real-Time Data

Amy Sample Ward

As soon as the question is live, you start seeing the impressions and the responses, aggregated in real time. it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! The questions could actually be calls to action! It’s incredible! Campaigning.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Making (and Mapping) An Impact Where It's Needed Most - Humaninet.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Making (and Mapping) An Impact Where It's Needed Most - Humaninet.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. 20 practices. BlogWikiWeb is the "wikitation" from the Web2.0

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Self-Identification and Status Updates: Personal Entrypoints to Museum Experiences

Museum 2.0

In short, he knows me by my actions relative to the gym, and he can offer me custom information based on my past behavior. When you make an audio mashup, your voice is part of the mix. Because Twitter is designed as a broadcasting service, the focus is on action--things you do, links you discover.

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