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APIs for Social Media Integration and More: A Gentle Introduction for Nonprofits

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API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 Focus on the word “interface”, which means facilitating communication between two different applications. One way of conceptualizing this is using blocks to make a structure. What are APIs? So what is an API, really?

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Twestival: Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I guess I look at it like this: if you give a hundred people tools to lay bricks, you'll likely get a hundred small structures. And the critical thing that a conductor does is synchronize the orchestra because the complexity of self-synchronization is hard at that scale. Seems like facilitative leadership is key.