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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). a11y accessibility Bookshare engineering executive Gerardo GoRead innovation open source Read2Go'

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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.) The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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Personalization for Better Engagement

Forum One

For example, you can make use of Optimizly as a cloud-based solution, or Smart Content as a CMS-specific approach. As Forum One works primarily with open-source software platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, we created a tool that allows administrators to utilize the benefits of a CMS.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. For example, shortly after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the company’s entire accessibility staff was laid off. For example: Does your organization provide direct services via Big Tech social media platforms?

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

sgEngage

For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” They opened up the same mechanism in year two and received a stack of proposals with bold and innovative ideas. In year one, they received a small batch of submissions, and they were terribly disappointed.

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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10NTC: Freedom for IP's Brian Rowe on Content Sharing

Tech Soup

However, he did stress that even nonprofit organizations should follow the same rules as any other entity, and in the video he elaborates on certain examples where organizations may want to tread carefully in regard to copyright. He also talks about his Utilikilt. Tools Web 2.0

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