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Open records, FOIA Act are pillars of journalism — and a free society Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, journalists, NGOs, general public. Guest post by Dan Gillmor Director, Center for Citizen Media “Freedom of information” is not just a phrase. It is a pillar of an open and free society. Nowhere has that pillar been […]
Best new Twitter tool: HootSuite 2.0
Guest post by Chris Abraham Abraham-Harrison Back in the earlier days of third-party Twitter apps (just a few months ago, actually), a few very effective web-based services got my attention: SocialToo, TweetLater, and HootSuite. Sad thing was, while they were all very powerful services, they were all poorly designed, very hacked together, and fugly. Enter […]
Open source’s growing influence
Guest post by Renee Blodgett CEO, Magic Sauce Media At this week’s AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, the open source video company Kaltura organized and participated in a SaaS Goes Open Source panel (SaaS as in Software as a Service). In this video interview, Kaltura CEO Ron Yekutiel says open source is disruptive but on the rise, […]
How open standards can benefit nonprofit tech
Guest post by Peter Deitz SocialActions I don’t know about you, but I am a big fan of open standards, particularly when my bladder Direct Messages me with the hashtag #urgent. Open standards (see picture below) guide me to a place where I can @reply in a hurry. In the nonprofit technology community, open standards […]
10 ways to support charity through social media
Guest post by Josh Catone Mashable This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. ______________________________________________ Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation […]
