Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Paul's idea of blogs by people who work in ICT for volcoms (US translation nonprofit technology) as a way to have an ongoing (but distributed) conversation resonated with me: I have a blog of my work , with links to the two regionally based ICT blogs I have discovered so far. "I use my blog to help work things out for myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It also offers a glimspe of how widgets will change the web and uses a metaphor of open source software development: I think the greatest value widgets offer is the ability to add functions and services that aren't built-in to existing blog platforms. there's a boatload of social bookmarking sites for instance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

"nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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