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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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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The tools are getting better and better, and one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 – the APIs, make it all the more simple to aggregate all of someone’s online content. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 As a search engine, users never have to sign-up to get value from Spock.

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What’s A Learning Experience Platform? The Essential Guide

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However, as you begin searching for your association’s next solution, you’ll quickly come across a new option on the market— learning experience platforms (LXPs). Because the LXP acts as an aggregation tool, a wide variety of content is always made available for learners. Even further, should you invest in one? Driven by the learner.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. And, certainly, it's help me as a news feed to keep abreast of the flow.

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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. Google Blog Search. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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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. Google Social Edge Search searches 35 sites, including : omidyar.net, compumentor.org, techsoup.org, bblocks.org, idealist.org, rpcv.org, etc. What do you think?