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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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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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Change The Web Challenge from Social Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Actions has designed the Change the Web contest to stimulate innovative and effective web application development that facilitate social actions. Social Actions is reaching out to social software tool builders to dream up a new tool to help people find and share actions.

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

Tech Soup

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. For more on creating mobile web sites, see Laura Quinn at Idealware's recent post ) Another interesting way that the Brooklyn Museum is incorporating social media, is its " Socially Networked Museum Membership " offers membership benefits.

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Web2.0 Adoption from Business Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Carr reports that some hard data is coming out this week on the adoption of Web 2.0 It indicated that Web 2.0 Fully 89% of the CIOs said they had adopted at least one of six prominent Web 2.0 Fully 89% of the CIOs said they had adopted at least one of six prominent Web 2.0 It found strong interest in many Web 2.0

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