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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Fundraising Ideas

Tech Soup

Hold a music related event. Think battle of the bands, a concert, a DJ mashup, or a party that people will pay to attend or have a karaoke night where attendees not only pay to participate but can donate to see your staff sing! Fundraise a walk or run which can be for a set distance or a number of laps.

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How to choose a CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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More good news from Google: Open Handset Alliance

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are amazing photos in flickr and wonderful music in ccmixter.org. During the Webinar with Michael Hughes of See3, the question of fair use came up, specifically around the mashup that was made to promote NTEN video content. My approach has been to stick with Creative Commons licensed Share Alike 2.5

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. 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

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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click To Play "A machinima short music video we shot in Second Life. Next ManorMeta Mashup coming soon, enjoy this for now! ~in Check this out. Special thanks to the Dresden Dolls and Michael Pope for letting us hack into their awesome work. in kenzo, machinimatographer~