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

Amy Sample Ward

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

The team also hopes to incentivize organizations to share knowledge and give beneficiaries a direct voice. I’ve spent the past few years working with the semantic web, referred to as “web 3.0″, ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Where did the idea for OpenAction begin?

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60 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Encarta – The Dodo and the Dinosaur

Tech Soup

Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. If I were a teacher, I would be skeptical of any information sourced from there. To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me.

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70 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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