article thumbnail

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

Amy Sample Ward

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users.

API 186
article thumbnail

The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

Rather than reaching out to the other agency and referring people to them, they were using this increased demand to their advantage and had tweaked their funding solicitations to use the language, “For every one community member we support, three more are waiting for services. The other organization was over capacity.

Problem 74
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here’s a glimpse at what we’re delivering: Open-content, publicly available and freely shared image descriptions and reusable graphical models to improve accessibility of NIMAC textbooks and Common Core content (this is so cool, I'm going to write another blog just on this aspect: look for the Triple Play blog!) In the U.S.,

Impact 140
article thumbnail

Free Shipping on Idealware's 2010 Field Guide

Tech Soup

Through a friendly, easy-reference format, the Field Guide helps you pinpoint the types of software that can increase your organization’s effectiveness and efficiency. While you're taking advantage of the free shipping, I'd suggest also taking a look at FLOSS Manuals' Lulu store , for great manuals on free and open-source software.

Guide 43
article thumbnail

Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) On some Joolma forum, I read a reference to vtiger and Joomla, but that was from 2005!

article thumbnail

The search for good web conferencing

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 The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

Search 100
article thumbnail

Research Friday: Volunteering and Financial Statements - What’s Missing?

ASU Lodestar Center

There is a free online open-source software program that supports the development of these Socioeconomic Statements. The software is intended to accompany the book, a needed resource as the thinking and language is non-traditional; the book is very explanatory. Sigel Press, 2007, pg.