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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

As the numbers of users grow, so do your number of friends, and then in turn so does the frequnecy of news items, status updates, and general calls to action for your network. There are TONS of climate activisits and organizations on Twitter - spreading news, policy alerts, new developments, and ideas. what is happening and 2.

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

Amy Sample Ward

There’s a lot happening with Social Actions right now but one bit of news is really exciting, and needs to be highlighted: some incredibly important technical enhancements have recently been made to the Social Actions API. The Social Actions project began in 2006. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. But it is annoying when something is trumpeted as open source but hasn’t been architected or documented in a way that would allow others to make practical use of the code).

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. To good news, you don't need to write a blog to find people and to participate in the conversation. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! news or web feeds ???? The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ????

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. That’s good news. It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for.

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Cloud Computing 101: What You Need to Know

NTEN

Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Anything and everything -- from email, websites, databases, and project management to snail mail, online storage of documents, voicemail, and more. Amazon S3, Google Checkout, Google Maps, PayPal). So, what can you do in the cloud?

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(Pop through your read to check out the new look for the blog too, although there are vendor ads via Google) Sundance, the Oscars, and Nonprofit Technology? Democracy in Action has invited everyone into the NpTech Oscar Pool Katya Andresen from Network for Good gives us the lastest celebrity news (what no gossip?) 20 practices.

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