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Share your best post in the Net2 Think Tank

Amy Sample Ward

It’s already December and we are fast approaching 2010. As a way to hold on a bit longer to 2009, this Net2 Think Tank asks for your best blog post from the year. And we don’t want it to get tucked away under what’s to come in 2010, at least not yet! Share your best blog post from 2009 one more time!

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Great reads from around the web on December 25th

Amy Sample Ward

Social Media: What I Learned This Year | Millennial Marketing – Carol Phillips has a great post recapping what she learned about social media in 2009, including: "Effective use of Social Media requires enthusiasm and diligence." February 12, 2010, and promises to be "more than just a conference on the next generation web."

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Real-Time Web Social Action Events: Blurring the Offline/Online Distinction?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two weeks ago, I wrote up my prediction for fundraising trends for 2009. My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away.

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Deadline Approaching for $10,000 Pizzigati Prize

Tech Soup

Yaw Anokwa (2010), who, along with others from the University of Washington, created the Open Data Kit, enabling Android-powered smartphones to easily collect data in the field, like text, photos, video, audio, barcodes, and location.

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Will It Take a Village to Bring Our Communities Online?

NTEN

Disclosure: In August 2009, CoTweet paid me to write a casestudy for them.). I'm blaming it on 4 years of awesome NetSquared conversations. I proposed a panel for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. It's the first software I've ever fallen in love with. When did I turn into such a giant nerd? Who is already doing it well?

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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