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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Targeted toward 18-29 year olds, the app links Facebook users with the MyVote online service for voter registration and information. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process.

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Guest Post by Amy Sample Ward -- The Power of Vision: Review of “The Pollyanna Principles”

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. Tags: Books guest blogging. What’s the catch? So, what’s stopping us from doing this?

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A Look at Nonprofits and Vlogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. Lots and lots of technical questions -- from file formats to what video distribution service to use. For this kind of video development I like services like blip.tv Here's a synthesis.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

Widgets like ChipIn and Network for Good Badges , and services like Firstgiving make it easy for them to support your cause. For example, here is a post that I wrote from Aspiration Tech's Nonprofit Developer's Summit for NetSquared blog readers. Full disclosure: I am on ChipIn's nonprofit advisory board).

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Minnesota Council for Nonprofits annual conference; and after my presentation, I spent a couple hours speaking with folks from various nonprofits, vendors and service organizations. Community-Driven Model. There may be many things you do and provide that the community loves.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Photo sharing websites have been around for over a decade, but Flickr was one of the first photo sharing services to use keyword tags to encourage connections between photos and users. Hiring people. The power of Web2.0

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

This post was authored by Claire Sale and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. trusted body of knowledge and the 'why' has to do with providing a service to a busy and information-inundated nonprofit sector. service), as well as by getting news updates from Google Alerts, and. It goes much.

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