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 […]
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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 […]
Socialbrite developer releases CC plug-in
Last month, when Socialbrite launched, we announced that our developer — Buenos Aires tech guru Esteban Glas — had crafted a Creative Commons plug-in that woud allow users of WordPress blogs to use different CC licenses for each post on the site. On Wednesday Esteban released WP-License Plugin Reloaded to the WordPress community, and already […]
Video tutorial: How to make a Facebook page in under 4 minutes
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Building for mobile at the margins
Fortunately for us, many of the day-to-day technologies that drive large chunks of our online lives quietly tick away in the background, only reminding us of our total dependence on them when something breaks or goes wrong. We take the complex ecosystem which drives much of this for granted. A couple of months ago, I […]