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

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. They were talking about API’s.

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How do you keep up?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field.

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My life as an (almost) ex-Technology Consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You’ll be great with this and it sounds like it will feed your soul in some new and better ways. Be Helpful. I decided several weeks ago, for a variety of reasons, to retire my independent consultant hat. I want to smell the sweat of working for change in our society, from the inside out. { at 5:25 pm Good luck, Michelle.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can actually go back and review your entire feed. Help Me Send Leng Sopharath To College in Good Health! Interview with Jonathon Colman. This analysis took all of five minutes.

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29-Day Giving Challenge: An Interview with Cami Walker

Have Fun - Do Good

I'll be starting the challenge again on October 30, 2008 so that the 29th day of my challenge will be on November 27, 2008, American Thanksgiving. Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Getting More out of Online & Offline Events

Forum One

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. We happen to have a software for this very thing: Live Interviews Online.) (We happen to have a software for this very thing: Live Interviews Online.) Check it out !

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." One in three. But is it right? One in four.