Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2011
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. We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 28, 2006
Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
DECEMBER 17, 2007
The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 tool to jump in. Or perhaps maybe I won’t even. What a concept.
Forj
JUNE 7, 2021
LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Because the LXP acts as an aggregation tool, a wide variety of content is always made available for learners.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 1, 2007
It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. To put it a different way, the sharecroppers operate happily in an attention economy while their overseers operate happily in a cash economy. .
Forum One
JANUARY 22, 2010
The global teams aggregated their projects in a Crisis Commons -- take a look, I think you'll be amazed at the progress they've made. Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. When the east coast camps took an evening rest, the west coast, and international camps took over.
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