Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2011
A few years ago, we had just a handful of pioneering platforms in microphilanthropy. Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector.
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 27, 2010
With over a decade of web development experience, John channeled his skills into building something with social value. John is currently working on OpenAction, a platform that connects people to the projects they care about. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 10, 2007
connected to the Government platform. This same platform would have a series of APIs, so that doctors offices, schools, universities, researchers, community groups, local businesses and anyone with an interest could build applications, mashups and widgets that could use the data for the long tail of citizen needs.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 9, 2010
is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM!
Care2
JULY 16, 2008
The folks at Social Actions are trying to recruit a wide array of ideas from the non profit community for web applications and mashups Social Actions can build. Their goal is to build & bring to life between three to five of the communitys best ideas. Were excited to get building. Contribute your ideas here.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action? And what can we build with them? Twitterstorm, anyone?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) Some SaaS, like Salesforce.com, and increasingly the nonprofit CRM SaaS vendors, are open platforms.
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