Stories, software and strategies to help nonprofits do the social web
What’s a multi-modal application? One that does phone, web, and perhaps Twitter, etc. One example is TwitterVoteReport, a Rails application that collected reports of waiting time at the polls for the 2008 US election. Produced in 3 weeks by Dave Troy. Input came from telephone, Twitter, SMS. Here’s how Dave did it: Open-source Software to do Voice Adhearsion Ruby library for easing call handling. Provides a domain language for doing voice in Ruby Asterisk actually talks to the phone system Other Options...
May, 26 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Startup thinking for the social sector. Code to help nonprofits do the social web. Plus photography.
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