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

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. My intent was to inventory every interesting action I came across to make it easier for people to engage in the causes they cared about. The Social Actions project began in 2006.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Used as a facilitation technique in training can also help people generate ideas on how to apply the skills or concepts being taught. Furthermore, including people in your organization in problem-solving on a regular basis develops your organization’s problem-solving muscle. It can also be used to create work norms or processes.

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Data Portability for Good

NTEN

Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. By making your data available to others, you present your organization as a thought leader and a trusted provider of information and services. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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Step-by-Step: How To Set Up A Nonprofit Listening Post (Twitter - Part 1)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Step 4: Find People. Start with a couple of people who you know or who represent the group of people you want to listen to. You can try searching for people twitter. People who attended TED. Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. Here's a basic list of what to twitter. Here's a few ideas to get started.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. Finalists were invited to present in person to the NetSquared community at a one-day conference. People in a crisis area could send an SMS (text) message to report an outbreak of violence or other catastrophic conditions.

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Student creating a presentation in college? Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. University?

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