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Your AMS Wasn’t Designed For That

Association Analytics

One of those things is aggregating all the data from your other core systems (e.g. Sure, your AMS might work with your other tech partners to build custom integrations that drive data back to the AMS, but this process is clunky, expensive and very time intensive. A Better Approach.

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How to Measure Podcast Downloads

Whole Whale

A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Shouldn’t this just be a number I can lookup on the backend of Apple Podcast once I set up my feed? The feed was submitted to iTunes Connect and the Stitcher Publisher portal.

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

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. Originally, adding actions manually.

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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

Creating a space where you can collect and aggregate the news, content, and updates of your movement is important for people to better understand, follow, and join you. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today. One key element is the use of an online homebase. We are now seeing this put to great use with #OWS.

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Haiti Earthquake: Orphans, Crisis Mapping, and Tech Volunteers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are rushing an emergency team to them to care for, feed and protect them. Their goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response. They are now living on the street surrounded by rubble with no food, water, blankets or medicine. Many of them are HIV+.

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5 Myths That Are Sabotaging Your Major Gift Strategy

Saleforce Nonprofit

A senior executive at JP Morgan once told me that they are not a bank, they are a tech company that does banking. Tools like iWave streamline our prospect research by automatically aggregating and analyzing publicly available data to create rich (pun intended) donor profiles for our major gift officers.

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Great reads from around the web on June 13th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Official Google Blog: Bringing tech knowledge to nonprofits through the HandsOn Tech Corps – "Community service has always been important to us.

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