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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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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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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a few resources that might be of interest: How to do you explain flickr to those who haven't heard of it? And, what if you could subscribe to an RSS feed so anytime a new picture was added about a topic you care about, were studying, or writing about - it would come automatically to you? How-To Resources. Basic Overview.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" which is an introduction to social media concepts and tools for nonprofit use. where derivative work is allowed is a great tool for the. The CC licensed work on Flickr and CCmixter are wonderful resources. Do mashups and the notion of content remix finally fulfill the promises once made by proponents of learning objects?

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. It's messy.

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. The cover is from a remix mashup. FairShare allows anyone creating text content to submit an RSS feed of their work and choose a Creative Commons license to determine how it can be shared. to Change The World.

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