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Win Up To $15,000 in Sunlight Labs Mashup Challenge

NTEN

They encourage you to use Sunlight's code libraries , which the Labs recently open sourced. Tags: contest NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz APIs. You can find more information at [link]. Don't worry if you're not a coder geek. Check the Labs' wiki for ideas.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

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.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Software Bricklaying?

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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!

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

Museum 2.0

If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images. And now, on to the exciting bits.

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