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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. It also offers groups where members can share slide decks. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. He summarizes his organization's experience with the plone community and larger reflections about the complimentary strengths and differences between nonprofits and open source communities.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Check out this presentation from Slide Share that uses the Wizard of Oz to explain Web2.0. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! Ever wanted to incorporate a slide show in your drupal site? And if you???re

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Robin Good's site has published a summary of a report by Australian Flexible Learning Framework called " Social Software: What It Is And How It Impacts Individuals and Organizations " Reading the live blogging from the PDF Conference and twittering is making a lot of us wish we were there. If you've heard the term Enterprise 2.0

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. An excellent slide show about the issues in wiki adoption within the organization. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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