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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. The mashup was a map showing where people were volunteering in near-real-time. The real value to organizations is that they now have a dynamically updated map they can embed on their web site.

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. for geeks is APIs.

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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

Forum One

Users can, for example, subscribe to feeds of crime incidents or view a Google Map of construction projects completed in 2009. Vancouver's Open Data Catalogue : If you are a Vancouver resident or tourist, you can subscribe to an RSS feed of traffic advisories or review the 133 voting division boundaries. Tell us in the comments.

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Social Business Relationship Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This graphic is a mashup of Priscilla Brisbane's illustration of Levels of Engagement in advocacy campaigns with this blog post from the Social Organization's blog about how how business relationships and how technology helps or hinders. I wonder if you can map specific tools to specific stages?

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, what if you could subscribe to an RSS feed so anytime a new picture was added about a topic you care about, were studying, or writing about - it would come automatically to you? Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Later I'll show you how an efficient way to keep tabs on your watchlists using a RSS Reader). Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. RSS makes it possible for you to ??????subscribe??????

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