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Personal Health Data: It’s Amazing Potential and Privacy Perils

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake.

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

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources.

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Replacing Mobile Advertising with Real-Time Data

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve run three questions so far, and here’s some of the insights to the process: What influences your charitable giving? The first question I asked on Qriously was: “What influences your charitable giving?&# As soon as the question is live, you start seeing the impressions and the responses, aggregated in real time.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

The best answer I can give (without spending the entire brainstorming, strategizing, and working in person) is that Facebook is a place to connect, and round up supporters. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Good question.

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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm enjoying how Robin Broitman aggregate links about social media. His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. Photo by Caveman92223. Take her ROI and Measurement list. celebration of shared sensations of change?

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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. Live Blogging Conferences.

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

Museum 2.0

Some of the largest web ventures are opening the doors to their content by giving savvy scripters direct access to the databases that drive these sites using programatic interfaces or APIs. Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data.

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