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Wisdom 2.0: Living Consciously In A Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chris Sacca quipped that he usually attends technology conference where most people in the audience are buried in their smart phones or laptops and that this conference was the one where felt the mostly everyone was paying attention to him. She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

The Extraordinaries is smartphone software (iPhone, Blackberry, and more) that allows millions of people to perform brief micro-volunteer tasks on their smartphones in a few minutes of spare time. The Extraordinaries -- On-demand crowdsourcing volunteerism via smartphones. Second Place: $15,000. First Place: $25,000.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.