Tis the Season
Pamela Ashlund writes about the RSSing of the holidays. You can download a set of icons here. (I like the FreeGeek recycled green geek tree)
Chez Pim's, annual online fundraising campaign, Menu for Hope happening December 10-21. Last year the campaign raised $62,925 for the WFP.
Just in Time for the Giving Season, TechSoup is hosting an online event about online gift giving
Go check out the Story of Stuff. It's enough to really make you re-think your gift giving.
NpTech Bytes and Pieces
Remembering Wayne Glynn, a tribute to a colleague from Deborah Finn. Other thoughts from NTEN.
NTC is open for registration! It's in New Orleans!
Wired for Change is a result of a merger between CGL Group and DemocracyInAction.com.
Blogging Projects
Chris Brogan offers a gem of a post called "Social Media Starter Pack" that summarizes five concepts and includes tools and easy to get started first steps. This blog post is part of a project to write 100 useful posts on social media.
The blog post series meme continues with Michele Martin who recently finished a week of posts called "Employee Learning Week" in celebration of ASTD's Employee Learning Week.
Solo blogging projects look like an interesting way to take a deep dive on a topic and attract people fascinated by the subject matter. What nonprofit technology topic would you focus on for a week or 100 posts?
Social Networking
Quick, you don't have much time left to nominate the Best of the Social Web for Nonprofits in 2007.
A number of people have been linking to Jeremiah Owyang's presentation at the Web Community Forum on Facebook.
A few reflections from nonprofit tech bloggers about Facebook strategies, including these thoughts from Beth Dunn, Marnie Webb, Rich Reader, and Ian Wilker.
Marnie Webb points to a blog post at the Harvard Business Review from Charlene Li of Forrester Research on whether organizations or individual should bother with social networking sites. She lays down a great case for professional networking and potential value it offers. For an alternative view, see Thomas Davenport's "Why MySpace and Facebook Won't Change The Workplace."
Holly Ross at NTEN covers the Facebook privacy flap. Here's a video about privacy concerns on Facebook and other social networking sites. A few more useful resources here and here.
Micah Sifry and Joshua Levy at PDF catch up with Change.org's Founder, Benjamin Rattray, to discuss what's new at Change.org
Here's an interesting post on the topic of creating connections through conversations and offers some good points about facilitating online conversations, perhaps of use to those who have started Facebook groups and want to create a community. Speaking of connections and conversations, check out Britt Bravo's "Has Anyone Ever Died from a Blog Comment?"
EchoDitto has a post with roles and responsibilities for an online marketing team. I wonder, if or when, we might see a job description devoted to social networking. What responsibilities would be on such a job description and who would be an ideal candidate?
Here's another social networking sites for charities called "MyCharityPage." You can about the launch here.
Nancy White has launched a group on Facebook well worth joining and actively participating.
Open Source Research on FB for Non Profits with Nancy's Friends.
Video
The World Food Program announces a YouTube viral video competition called Hunger Bytes. (Maybe they will enter a few in the NTC video contest
This video on Current.TV explores mobile phone technology that is advancing the process of Microfinance in India and other developing countries, making it possible for them to quantify their credit and help put them on the same level as larger banks.
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.
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