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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. Her selection criteria.

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I argue that while folksonomies are changing the way we interact with content, people, and organizations, they are still a long way from helping us optimize our consumption of the ever increasing amount of content and media on the Web. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help.

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She uses her personal blog, A View From Home , to help her keep informed of technology. "I use my blog to help work things out for myself. " So the idea of having aggregated Eureka moments or simply being able to read a colleague's Eureka moment anytime you want. it will come I'm sure! If I have a ???eureka???

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project uses a tool named STEVE , an open-source tool for enabling social tagging of museum object images to create folksonomies. Small individual efforts aggregate into unique pathways through a complex context. Help others find this object??? A new proof of concept paper was just presented.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Windows Live Writer is primarily known as tool to help you better format and publish blog posts to the Web, but it’s also a very useful, simple, and free tool that can be used to easily generate HTML code. Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages.

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