Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Tim says: If all OpenSocial does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that’s a big win for the developer, as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network. But it provides little incremental value to the user, the real target.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

called “ Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale ,” by myself and Katherine Fulton. has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. Just last week we published a new case study of KaBOOM!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

This means that anyone can hack their phones – and a raft of developers can create really interesting kinds of software for phones. We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. This is big.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. I think that APIs are an expression of the best of what the internet is about. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. But I have a first take.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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