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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. Click through to see larger diagram.

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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Yesterday, at Make Your Mark’s Social Media Afternoon, I was asked what my predictions were. 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. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. And I realized.

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Social Actions’ Change The Web Challenge in Oxford

Amy Sample Ward

Social Actions has created an open database of 60,000+ actions from 40+ sites — including GlobalGiving, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, Kiva.org, NABUUR, TakingITGlobal, Idealist.org, and VolunteerMatch. Agenda : Peter Deitz, founder of Social Actions, will present his vision for an open philanthropic web.

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Social != 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.

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

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Social Actions and where does the API come in? The Social Actions project began in 2006. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!

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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've been researching widgets recently and the last section of the interview covers that: Marshall Kirkpatrick : I???ve ve been thinking about widgets, relative to mash ups, lately.

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Monitor Institute we are interested in “emerging practices” in the social sector—including new more networked ways of working. is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). While KaBOOM!

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