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Social Actions’ Change The Web Challenge in Oxford

Amy Sample Ward

Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. See you in Oxford, Peter Deitz, Romina Oliverio, Rolf Kleef, Amy Sample Ward. Tags: conference hack day social actions events oxford. Test-drive submitted applications to the Change The Web Challenge. Brainstorm opportunities for online campaigners.

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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Mashups are great. But I think 2009 will see a more refined world of mashups take over. We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. I love them!

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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News from NetSquared: Case Studies, Microsoft Development Challenge, and N2Y4 Registration Open!

Tech Soup

Here's a quick snapshot of some of the projects they're working on now: Case studies: Amy Sample Ward has posted the first in a series of NetSquared case studies on their site. They cover all 21 Featured Projects from last year's N2Y3 Mashup Challenge. You can track all of the posts by using this link for the N2Y3 case studies here.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

NTEN

Superstar NTEN member Amy Sample Ward interviews Clay Shirky -- NTC09 Plenary Speaker and author of Here Comes Everybody -- about how social media will affect the future of nonprofits, specifically about how nonprofits are (and should be) communicating with their members/supporters. One tactic is going online.

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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. Tags: interview maps data openaction opensource philanthropy socialactions. Things have just been super chaotic as of late.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. Tags: issues socialchange strategy climate change earth day environment social media. So how do you cut through the noise, how do you sift through the random updates, how do you connect and engage?

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