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

Amy Sample Ward

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) They were talking about API’s. Why aren’t you publishing this data in RDF?”.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We can help you with that.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. NpTech Conversations.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We can help you with that.

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Museums and Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. the final version, the application pulls images from flickr.com that are tagged "denver+art+museum" and screened for certain licensing types. In designing and developing The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Voting, rating, and feedback crowdsourcing projects have applications beyond philanthropy and marketing. NTEN used a hybrid crowdsourcing approach to solicit panel proposals for its NTC 2011, similar in design and approach to the method SXSW has used.

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