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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme.

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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

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. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. I love them!

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Mashups: Marshall Kirkpatrick Interviewed by Robin Good

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Anyway, there is a terrific video interview of Marshall and text transcript over at Master New Media where Marshall talks about Mashups. I took that photo of Marshall at the NTC in Seattle last year when I finally met him face-to-face! ve been thinking about widgets, relative to mash ups, lately. RG: an RSS feed.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

The team also hopes to incentivize organizations to share knowledge and give beneficiaries a direct voice. I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time.

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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

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

connecting organizations for shared knowledge, partnerships and coalitions. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping.

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

Amy Sample Ward

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. Their mission is to link the world’s knowledge in the same way that all of the world’s web pages have been linked to one another. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why.

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