NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

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Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended

Due to some technical glitches, you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects!

If you're still not sure where cast your votes and want to check out what others think about the projects, take a look at the community slate of recommendations and elsewhere on the Web. In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process.

Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process.
CompuMentor's founder shares his top ten projects.
Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says "Support Idealware!" and tells exactly why.
Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on
Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed.
ErikaBJune shines a spotlight on virtual world and digital games for change projects.
Transparency is the New Black: My Top 5 Plus 1 (That will be the name of a book title in six months ..!) is from Michael Gibbons who used leadership, passion, and resourcefulness as his criteria.
David James is the only slate that uses "underdogs" as a criteria for narrowing down the choices to ten. His definition: projects that are not well funded. "Put it this way, if you have a quote from Bill Clinton on your site, you are probably not hurting for publicity!"
Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify "facilitator projects" that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way.
Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia.
Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is
Six Proposals That Impact Civil Society in Africa looked at the six Net2 attributes and africa location.
Tactical Philthanthropy's Ten Top Projects - Sean Stannard-Stockton has put in the grunt work to review 100 plus projects to review and listed his top ten choices.
David Geilhufe's identifies three projects that pop out!
Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns.

The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,and here. There's an excellent tip sheet on how to get the word out about projects here.

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks!

Good luck!

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources. What's interesting is while there is some overlap, there is not total duplication. Go figure.

Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience:

Marnie Webb says Web2.0 is an attitude, not a download
Emily Weinberg has some terrific notes from the "Branding Through Websites: Building Your Brand from the First Click"
Heather Carpenter summarizes what she learned from the Disaster Planning for Nonprofits session
DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote.
Tim Fullerton gives us a quick review of the NTC as a first-timer, as does Marc Sirkin
Christine summarizes all the prizes and awards given to people at NTC, while ISIS writes about taking their grassroots tree on a plane and Gavin tells about his NTENie. (Here's Steve Wright modeling his)
Trish Perkins gives us a detailed roundup and notes from all the sessions and dinners she attended!
Kim Lowery also gives us a round up the sessions she attended as well as her Day of Service experience. Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience.
An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert
A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse
Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun.
NTEN's "What Inspires You" on Blip.TV is definitely worth checking out - like this interview with Christina Arnold from Project Hope.
Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest
Here's all my blog posts pointing to session notes and I used the excuse the videoblogging week to create 18 videos while at the conference.

More pointers to NTC posts here. And if you want everything, look in these spots:

Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino

We are all photographers now, Steve Bridger's excellent post about nonprofits and social web photosharing
Another Social Network on the horizon - Allen Benamer adds his two cents about the Project Agape and the TechCrunch Report and the issue of social networking fatique
How To Feed Your Blog To Twitter shows you an easy way to stream a presence on twitter and if you don't know about Twitter, read the 12-Minute Guide
Ruby on Rails Case Study; ChangingThePresent.org
Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger
Donor Power Blog defines fundraising 2.0, the Flip Blog makes sense out of badges, and Katya Andresen says "make it easy."
Greenpeace UK is about to launch a new drupal site
Horizon Project is K-12 project that looks how t harness the power of the connected in schools. There is a lot nonprofits can learn from this project which just launched.
What are the strategies for developing trust with users in a Web2.0 world?
Open Source Software is Fair Trade!
WebWorker Daily Emergency Kit (What tools are in yours?)
Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism.
How age coding can improve your fundraising effectiveness ...
Michael Hoffman points to the Most Emailed List!

Join the Conversation and Debate On Open Content for Nonprofits

An interesting conversation percolating about Open Content on the NpTech blogopshere sparked by a thoughtful post from Michelle Murrain commenting on the licensing of the new Journal of Information Technology and Social Change. Michael Gilbert responds here and invites people to dive in. Michelle Murrain summarizes the discussion and adds some food for thought.

Laura Quinn explains why she feels the "all content should be open" attitude is not responsible and explains how/why there aren't sustainable business models in nonprofit content creation. Her call to action: "If we want good nonprofit content in the world, we can’t just arbitrarily demand openness. We can't assume that someone else will foot the bill for us, because that just isn't a sustanable long term solution. We need to support the organizations that are writing it in figuring out how to cover their costs. Or these organizations will simply cease to exist."

Where Most Needed had this to say. In the comments, Michele Martin points to an interesting article "Saying You Can't Compete for Free Is Saying You Can't Compete"

What is your take ...on Open Content for Nonprofits?

The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. You can find the columns here: The summaries are released on cc 2.5 license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the appropriate attribution!