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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

The team also hopes to incentivize organizations to share knowledge and give beneficiaries a direct voice. I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time.

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Step-by-Step: How To Set Up A Nonprofit Listening Post (Twitter - Part 1)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How will you share the information? How will you share the results of what you heard? How many feeds? Share the workload - should not just be one person. Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. Who in the organization will do the listening? Social Listening Literacy Skills. Are you currently using RSS Reader?

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Data Portability for Good

NTEN

Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. Our entry was not only fun, but useful -- a bonus!

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Another Thing For Nonprofits To Think About With Ad Supported Video Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First, I want to say thank you Caroline Meeks from Solution Grove and fellow Boston TechnoBabe for her donation to the Sharing Foundation to support Leng Sopharath's education. for the Sharing Foundation! But heck, that could feed a family of four for a week in the rural area of Cambodia. So far, we've earned a whooping $3.00

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. news or web feeds ????

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. It isn??????t

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 4:31 pm Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Sep 25, 2008 09.25.08 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. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08