Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 30, 2009
There were people already doing cool stuff, like InSTEDD and some great work around mashups of humanitarian data in Afghanistan, as well as folks discussing lauching cool new social enterprises (but we can't talk about them yet). I did a session on technology that does social good but doesn't make money, and got a dynamic group to show up.
NTEN
JANUARY 27, 2009
They encourage you to use Sunlight's code libraries , which the Labs recently open sourced. Entries must be applications that use a host of government information APIs or datasets, including the Sunlight Labs API, OpenSecrets.org API, the FollowtheMoney.org API, the Capitol Words API, and other Sunlight APIs and datasets.
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Forum One
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Rhode Island's Open Data : Yet another site only a programmer could love, RI.gov's data library is as deep and wide as Newport Harbor, for which you can download tidal data. Independent programmers have used the data to develop a range of innovative mashups an mobile apps, which the city lists in its App Showcase.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 3, 2009
I've even taught my children about creative commons (check out Harry's screencast - What A Second Grader Knows About Creative Commons that earned him a feature story in the School Library Association Journal) All of this assumes that people really bother to look at the license, understand it , and respect the rules. to Change The World.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
MAY 11, 2006
Now that object-oriented environments were enabling people to write little self-contained blocks of code that encapsulated an entire business function, developers would be able to buy some libraries and snap the components together like legos. Relatively unskilled developers will just mashup a bunch of enterprise services and -voila!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 23, 2008
The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. follow up here ) A pilot project the Library of Congress is undertaking with Flickr , the enormously popular photo-sharing site that has been a Web 2.0
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 18, 2007
Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns.
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