Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) at 1:15 pm Open Social ! OpenSocial is a set of APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 ThomasT 06.11.08 I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. It is an inevitable result of our desire for social networks, as well as our desire for information to be portable (like in RSS feeds.) 2 admin 06.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

As a nonprofit, what you would do is set up a profile, and I imagine tags or keywords would indicate where your link would show up. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08 at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

In some comments in a post of mine about Facebook, someone mentioned the article “ Facebook is the new AOL &# and I also mentioned an article I’d read asking how open is Facebook , really? Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Wired says : Therein lies the rub. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

There have been lots of blog posts about Spock, mostly negative. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 at 6:28 pm { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Caroline Meeks 12.17.07 So, although I can trust Beth and Deborah, it appears I can’t trust Spock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

They need your help to bring back Ranger Rick's profile that was recently taken down by Facebook Staff. Help bring back Ranger Rick's profile Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. According to an email from Ben Rattray, Change.Org founder, "This is not at all meant as a replacement for the profiles organizations have on MySpace and Facebook, which I think are great for reaching younger supporters.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Well organized - Ensure the site code is properly organized and commented so that it is understandable by any developer (especially style sheets). Most open-source CMSs have tools or plugins for setting up daily backups. Try to break things - Check all site functionality for error messages, bugs, and other goofy issues.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. This profile will promote standardization in how simulators report over the Internet to databases. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. The White House opened up their Twitter account during the peak of the Swine Flu hysteria. They accepted questions via Twitter and then had an expert reply via the White House blog. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Many fit one of the following profiles, but you should always make sure you understand the community using each tag before you jump into the fray. Ongoing Topics: Tags like #jobs , #education , #sales are informal (but useful) ways of asking questions, discussing, and commenting on certain topics. Each #hashtag is different.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

This week, our members won blogging awards, discussed the implications integrating technology into Democracy, and shared beautiful videos about their cause. Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Know an Open Source developer who is pushing the nonprofit sector forward? Share your links in the comments!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

It introduced me to a new blog, called Read/WriteWeb , which I’m liking a lot. But there isn’t an easy way, for instance for me to see other’s data without actually clicking through to their profile. at 8:25 am { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Alexander Limi 07.19.07

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. into “Stories” that can then be easily shared on social media and embeded on websites and blogs. Re.vu :: re.vu.

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