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I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTechMashups. So, let's unleash the NpTechMashup Meme.
People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.
Via Britt Bravo Do you have an idea for how a mashup could be a tool for social change? NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge.
NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. There's even an NpTech group that has to date 115 slideshows and 31 members.
Win $10,000 DonateNow Mashup Challenge at NetSquared. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Don't forget to add the search tool.
The NpTech Summary. So, this is going to be a NpTech Power of Ten roundup, noting ten themes from the week. Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks. If you're on Facebook, join the NpTech group so we can find each other! I just love this video introduction from the good folks from Freedom for IP.
We're hosting a contest called the NetSquared Mashup Challenge that I wanted to let you know about, and am hoping that you'll pass on to social changemakers and web innovators in your community. Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool."
Technorati Tags: nptech. Creative Commons is running a Flickr Contest encouraging people to use their photographic skills to support Creative Commons. The official rules are here. What a great idea!
Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! And we can't forget to highlight the fact that TechSoup 's NetSquared Mashup Challenge helps encourage, spread the news about, and fund this type of work each year.
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?
Over 1,500 mashups later, and a first prize win in the contest, DataMasher is proving to be a great experiment in data transparency. You can create mashups like Carma.org by combining data sets or services. Tags: Data Integration/APIs michaela hackner Newsletter NPTech NTEN sandy smith IT Staff.
Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. Tags: community buzz NPTech NTEN nten members. You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest. Voting's open till Monday!
Best Animation or Mashup . Tags: NPTech awards online politics. Oustanding Online Campaigns (National and local). Best Candidate Blog. Best Mobile/SMS Campaign. Best Podcasting Series. You can find out more about the criteria and award descriptions here. .
Firefox Ubiquity Command : A Firefox mashup that lets you highlight any phrase as your browse the web and find related ways to take action. social actions mashup. Tags: NPTech change the web NTEN web2.0 You have until April 3rd to submit your project. The winners will be anounced at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference.
Ordnance Survey lets people do mashups with its maps | Technology | Guardian Unlimited: "Normally we keep stuff about the Free Our Data campaign to its own blog, but some things are worth mentioning here too. Tags: NPtech. This ties in with our story in today's Technology. This ties in with our story in today's Technology.
May we suggest that if you ever host a party, you should offer an "Orange Leap Mashup" That sounds like it would be delicious. Tags: NPTech orange leap mpower NTEN fame. " Congrats to Orange Leap!
This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Tags: #10NTC Community NPTech NTEN science fair. Lots of prizes.
Disruptive Technology #9: Mashups and Enterprise Portals. Tags: cloud cloud computing data gartner intelligence NPTech virtualization. As we use servers for an increasing array of things -- storage, memory, I/O - -we're going to need more of them. In other words, data sharing. What are you seeing?
NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. 20 practices.
This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out the over 100 exhibitors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Tags: #10NTC Community NPTech NTEN science fair. Lots of prizes.
I'd like to close by pointing you all to this Valentine's Day appropriate post by Eric Johnson of the Case Foundation : " How to Date a Mashup Programmer " Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten members. You can probably guess where NTEN members came down on this debate. :).
"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program.
One of Sunlight Labs’ early entries is their Recovery.gov mashup. Tags: NPtech. Now, even the newest for-profit applications can turn heads by utilizing this new advanced technology.The non-profit sector has started to experiment with augmented reality. Another example is.
It could be a re-mix or mashup of the palette of event models above - or entirely new kinds of events! Tags: collaboration conversation guest blogging n2y4 net2 nptech. What event model is the best fit for your online community? Please share your ideas in the comments! This post was originally published at NetSquared.
Services: Pieces of common functionality that you can mashup with your applications (e.g., Tags: cloud computing Newsletter NPTech NTEN rem hoffmann rob jordan. Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Facebook). Amazon S3, Google Checkout, Google Maps, PayPal).
Over the past 10 years, the mashup of the web and our personally identifiable data (PID) has grown up. Tags: Data Leadership NPTech NTEN. By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org. George is also a featured contributor for the Huffington Post Impact section (HuffingtonPost.com/george-weiner).
Relatively unskilled developers will just mashup a bunch of enterprise services and -voila! Tags: nptech , programming Now its because of webservices and SOA (service-oriented architectures). mission critical software applications. Earlier this year , Charlie Bess in the EDS "Next Big Thing" Blog made this prediction yet again.
"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program.
A mashup isn't cool just because it uses data from different services - does the service provide real value? Tags: nptech , web2.0 His concern is that while indeed some new techniques have come into use, simply using them does not necessarily provide better applications: The Web 2.0 That can't be Web2.0 - it's not even in a browser!
Mashups make me want to sing! Tags: bi business intelligence dashboards data IT Staff NPTech NTEN. Though my high school calculus class actually made me break out in hives -- it was the most stressful experience of my life -- I adore data. I want to eat statistics for dinner. I would marry a good data visualization. What about you?
Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.
I discovered Amy's NpTech blog about a year ago, maybe longer. EngageJoe.com blogs about his experiences spearheading and contributing to social change mashups and working with nonprofits on online strategy. Here's a few good blogs written by GenYs that cover nonprofit technology, philanthropy, social change, and more. Blogs by Gen Y.
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