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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

Through a search engine, Open Actions XML micro-format, an open API, and third-party tools and widgets, you can find and share ways to get involved in the causes you care about. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. Learn about the Open Actions XML micro format, and how you can use it.

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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.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Web2.0 Adoption from Business Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tools by companies: Forrester released some results from a December 2006 survey of 119 CIOs at mid-size and larger companies. tools - blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, social networking, and content tagging - and a remarkable 35% said they were already using all six of the tools. McKinsey also looked at six tools.

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The Social Media Dilemma

Tech Soup

Or have you started out in the online world of the blogosphere, twitterverse, vlogosphere or virtual reality but now that you have you are not sure what the right tools are for the job or who should be involved. Tags: Social Networking Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Change The Web Challenge from Social Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Actions is reaching out to social software tool builders to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions. It can be an application for any web enabled device -- IPhone, web site, blogs, Facebook, or other social networks. The winning application will receive $10,000.

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