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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Social !=

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Update: See Ben's Comment over here. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup. January 19, 2007 Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. January 12, 2007. So, Allan, did I get it right? Pointers To Context To All This.

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How to choose a CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 11:01 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe Baker 09.24.08 And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. The more SaaS vendors can contribute to and not detract from that ecosystem, the better. { at 8:02 pm I agree that openness is the key.

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Katrin 10.23.06

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