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Free and open source tool #12: Miro

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.

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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. We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. That’s today.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Be to search for your nonprofit to know how and where your brand is buzzing in the blogosphere!

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Net Neutrality Open Source Documentary

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. All of the video clips came from searching ???net feed where he is tagging resources here. So, I've been looking for a good reason to link over to them and now I found it! net neutrality???

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Google Chrome

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

Additionally, UniversalGiving is a member of Social Actions , ensuring that their opportunities to make a difference are heard and seen in even more places around the Web. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue. What is UniversalGiving?

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Marnie, Daniel, and Billy had been following developments at O’Reilly Web 2.0