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

Amy Sample Ward

I remember sitting in a session by Kurt Voelker of ForumOne Communications, Tompkins Spann of Convio, and Jeremy Carbaugh of The Sunlight Foundation. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. They were talking about API’s.

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A Data Picture is Worth More Than 1,000 Words

Connection Cafe

While the practice of using images to convey meaning is nothing new to humans, dating back to the earliest cave drawings, putting data into visual representations seems to have taken on a new life in this day and age where mashups are king on the internet. Below are some links to a great collection of data visualizations.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Convio in booths 107 & 108. Convio will be giving away an Apple iPad and also coffee in our booth during the Science Fair. We can help you with that. Better The World in booth 46.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

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and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Convio in booths 107 & 108. Convio will be giving away an Apple iPad and also coffee in our booth during the Science Fair. We can help you with that. Better The World in booth 46.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More on the GetActive and Convio Merger Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. Michael Hoffman from See3 is worried. 20 practices.

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Cloud Computing 101: What You Need to Know

NTEN

Skype, Convio Common Ground, Google Apps, Salesforce.com). Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Let's break it down into three major components: Applications: The tools that you use to run your nonprofit (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook).

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. Kintera uses something proprietary, as well as Convio. SQL is a bit fiddly at the best of times, and if we move past SaaS to DaaS (Data as a Service) it frees up a *lot* more time to share ideas on the functionality front.