Amy Sample Ward
MARCH 23, 2009
Social Actions has created an open database of 60,000+ actions from 40+ sites — including GlobalGiving, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, Kiva.org, NABUUR, TakingITGlobal, Idealist.org, and VolunteerMatch. Hack away on existing or new widgets, tools, and mashups. Learn about the Open Actions XML micro format, and how you can use it.
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2011
I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why.
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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. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.
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.)
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 5, 2007
We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 29, 2010
In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api. Integrate with Foursquare by pulling their data into your primary database of record – building an even more holistic view of your constituents by adding the location and preference data from Foursquare.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 20, 2006
There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for.
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