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Open source your Open Social Apps?

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 Open source your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. Anyone interested? Be Helpful.

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. What do we want?

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Net Neutrality Open Source Documentary

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Save the Internet | Rock the Vote. When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. We got into some back and forth email about widgets and he was kind of enough to give me a really useful critique of one of my videos. Additional Resources: Save the Internet. Neutraility Now!

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New tools

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 New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. Be Helpful.

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What is private? What is public?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Be Helpful.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 1:34 pm Michelle, Just curious what you thought/opinion is of widgets? at 1:35 pm And just noticed that you are using the “online status&# widget for typepad and would like to know what you think about that in terms of building community on a nonprofit blog? at 8:03 pm I like widgets, for the most part. 4 Beth 11.01.06

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Free Alternatives to Ning

Forum One

Additions: Photos, video, search, and a chat add-on widget. While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support. Directory: Using the "My Friends" module, ability to view others photos, and information.

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