Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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API Action Open Data 186

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing open source software was without cost.

Open Source 100

Open Source Software Open Free 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

When the nptech tag started one of the ideas was to gather enough data to look and see what words people were using to describe, say, open source (open source, floss, foss, open source software) and then use those words to inform a taxonomy. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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Guidelines Nptech Folksonomy Tag 50

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

And then what we see is that people really get to work, and really forge partnerships that are ongoing, and that keep feeding themselves and their work and their communities. So I would say that the inspiration comes from the connection that is available through opening up a space like this. It was really tremendous. We know this.

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Green Global Action Network 40