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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

John is currently working on OpenAction, a platform that connects people to the projects they care about. 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.

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

Amy Sample Ward

The Social Actions project began in 2006. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. A few years ago, we had just a handful of pioneering platforms in microphilanthropy.

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Hello We Are Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Josh Leo's Video Mashup We R The Media. Last week a group of lawyers representing a forthcoming book told us they didn't want us using same for the name NTEN's project. No small irony that the book and our project is about the collaborative power of social media. change the name of the google group ( done ).

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with. Go read it. vlogging, and podcasting). Judgment ???

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Machine Is US/ing Us (video) ( transcript ). Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Hiring people.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools. Unplugged Research an action research project which will explore the question: How do telecentres make 'web 2.0' socially and technically accessible in emerging knowledge societies? 20 practices.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Nina observes that the following makes this project really special: It is 100% community-based. Everyone is a Curator.

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