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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Folks at NTEN have been thinking about APIs , and will host a discussion about them on Friday. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation.

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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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

There are amazing photos in flickr and wonderful music in ccmixter.org. During the Webinar with Michael Hughes of See3, the question of fair use came up, specifically around the mashup that was made to promote NTEN video content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

NTEN has just announced the first NTC video competition. In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. Click To Play "A machinima short music video we shot in Second Life. Next ManorMeta Mashup coming soon, enjoy this for now! ~in

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. SQL is a bit fiddly at the best of times, and if we move past SaaS to DaaS (Data as a Service) it frees up a *lot* more time to share ideas on the functionality front. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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