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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Tech Soup

Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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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 ! KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

and news streams like #earthtweet. There is a lot of potential with Twitter to spread messages and calls to action from sources onto the Twitter stream, and then back again. You can also use Social Actions’ Twitter mashups to pull and push actionable opportunities to your network. It’s not going to work.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" which is an introduction to social media concepts and tools for nonprofit use. where derivative work is allowed is a great tool for the. While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. The title was " Ten Steps to Extension 2.0

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 x 10 Ten NpTech Tagged Items About Social Media and Nonprofits That You Can Check Out in Ten Minutes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Don't forget to add the search tool. Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Hurry the deadline is May 19th to submit your idea. A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans. NpTech Conversations.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the most important things to understand is that SaaS is primarily built upon open source tools such as Apache, MySQL, and MySQL. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08 5 friarminor 09.30.08