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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

So, here are my 2009 Predictions for the Social Web. Mashups are great. But I think 2009 will see a more refined world of mashups take over. We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. I love them!

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Social Actions’ Change The Web Challenge in Oxford

Amy Sample Ward

Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is about building innovative tools to help people find and share opportunities to take action on the websites, blogs, and social networks that we all visit everyday. Agenda : Peter Deitz, founder of Social Actions, will present his vision for an open philanthropic web.

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Apparently, the data stays in the container (the social network site) and probably can’t move beyond it. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks. Be Helpful.

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Foursquare and Nonprofits: I want to Be The Mayor of Brooklyn Museum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Shelley says, " as people explore our area, the Brooklyn Museum staff help them along in their journey pointing out the joys of pancakes at Tom’s Restaurant or the killer wine selection at Abigail’s." Other ideas include a special Museum badge. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api.

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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. The other half of the guide is an online component to help you keep up to date. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank). It's called the RWW Community Management Aggregator.

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Foursquare is a location-based social network.      Think of it as a social network where your status up is not what you're doing, but where you are.   In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. Photo by Neatonjr.

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Change The Web Challenge from Social Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action. Social Actions is reaching out to social software tool builders to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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