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

Amy Sample Ward

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The quality of the search results were limited by our querying capabilities and relevancy ranking. The results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database.

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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

It is a mashup of RSS feeds on one page that includes: The ten best or "must read" blog posts from selected blogs. The filtering of these posts is handled automatically is based on the number of comments, inbound links, and other signs of engagement. (Hmm. sounds like a mashup of RSS run through Postrank).

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And the results have been impressive. Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! Programs that are really complex, or which rely on tacit knowledge or specialized expertise, are harder to transfer to the online environment.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Noodling Around Change Management and Social Media Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did a mashup with social media framing. People or things change if a clearly specified result is laid down beforehand. * Joitske observes that the power of social media is more about the culture of openly sharing knowledge, collaboration, and engaging in co-creation. Joitske recommend Learning To Change. Blue-print thinking.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

In systems where expert users have significant knowledge or control in comparison to newcomers, I guess it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that these amateur experts might want to get some money out of it by becoming consultants. Also I would add to Matts list consultants and technical practictioners with mashup expertise.