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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 results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database. They tended to reflect only the most recently-added actions, not the most relevant.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Online, this may mean participants creating their own mashups or using organizational data to construct visualizations.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Go read it. Here's the key takeaways for me: * The capacity to be successful is an investment in time.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Blogging as personal discovery and connected conversation with colleagues Writing a blog regularly provides a vehicle for personal reflection and learning about your practice that can be easily shared with professional colleagues via a connected conversation. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here. 20 practices.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Machine Is US/ing Us (video) ( transcript ). Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! It's messy. Step 1: Find People.

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Think Like a Game Designer

Museum 2.0

In 45 minutes, we were able to make some sophisticated observations about how to change the rules to reflect a wide variety of underlying values or goals. Each person was given an "identity card" that featured a mashup of two faces smooshed together (see image at top). It had a very simple structure. Does it mean seeing lots of stuff?

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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. Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections. The features on their Fan Pages include music player ( filled with symphony selections ), albums , photos , events , and videos. website with The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology we???ve

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