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

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources? And, certainly, it's help me as a news feed to keep abreast of the flow. How are you using the NpTech Tag? Do you read the summaries?

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some recent nonprofit tech posts addressing this topic here , here , here , and here. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Can such networks acquire the critical mass to provide meaningful and new connections? What do you think?

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Varied Technology Links (only a little zen)

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.) There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources.

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Intranets, Yammer, and Other Web 2.0 Tools for Staff Communication

Museum 2.0

Set up Yammer to host an internal, private free Twitter feed for your institution. create new pages for new areas of interest), refine mission statements, and aggregate research resources in a central area. Yammer works like Twitter--people send out short messages that anyone can read or follow. I like Wik.is

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