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

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. That’s today. was difficult.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

With over a decade of web development experience, John channeled his skills into building something with social value. 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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Newsmastering for Professional Development 2.0 Dashboard: Online Community Management Aggregator and Report

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web gave me a sneak peak at their Guide to Online Community Management Report and Aggregator. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank). Exportable OPML feeds for all blogs and hot posts. This is a premium service and it well worth the investment.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. And they're doing it in ways that allow people to build web applications on top of the data. By now, most folks in the web development and Gov 2.0 What are your favorite examples of government data applications and mashups?

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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. The team conceived "DataMasher" -- a web app that allows users to "mash up" two sets of state data. Data is the next buzz-word after Web 2.0.

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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 many feeds? You can read on the web or send messages to your phone or IM client. Nonprofit Pulse just created a mashup. You can use Twitter's web interface, but it can get difficult to see who is talking to you. If so, what reader? Are you currently on Twitter? Twitter Packs - Nonprofits. Step 5: Add Desktop Clients.

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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 ’ [Your captcha is asking me to type a slightly naughty word) 2 Mr Web Service 09.25.08 Personally I love open source and think it’s part of what the web’s about. at 8:02 pm I agree that openness is the key.