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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits August 13, 2008 I love these tidbits blog posts. I was profiled on Linux.com. I “live the open source lifestyle.&# This blog is rated 8.2 at blogged.

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Facebook Ad Platform

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform. That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Jeremiah Owyang, who’s blog I read occasionally, has a good point: figure out what your strategy is, first ! Ads can be targeted by profile data.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What I am curious is how nonprofit marketing staffers are explaining this to their executive directors. Still, I'd love to know the answers to these questions: How do you explain to your executive director? What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? The web, it???

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Data Portability update

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. tools, they need to understand the implications of what they do, and demand that the tools use open standards. { are *yours* to do whatever you want with.

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Facebook the last frontier?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) at 1:15 pm Open Social ! OpenSocial is a set of APIs.

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What is private? What is public?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. I was trying to parse the usefulness of the service under the original wording, and it seems like there wouldn’t be much. 2 admin 06.11.08 at 10:56 am Thanks, Thomas, you’re right – there is an error there.

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