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

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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Newsmastering for Professional Development 2.0 Dashboard: Online Community Management Aggregator and Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're new to the topic, it is a great way to get up to speed and will would definitely help you inform your strategy. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank). The other half of the guide is an online component to help you keep up to date. It's called the RWW Community Management Aggregator.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual. But the real story is much more complicated. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader). Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. RSS makes it possible for you to ??????subscribe??????

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Another view of this 2.0 thing

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. Even though the [O'Reilly article] describes RSS as a push technology, I just don't see it that way. Turn off the refresh of your RSS reader and no new content - that's pull by my definition. Most of the things I see listed as Web 2.0

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