While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference.
NetSquared Community
Momentum is building for the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) beginning on May 29th. Like last year, conference participants are introducing themselves on their NetSquared Blog.
Eric Leland is the first person to introduce themselves!
If you participated in the voting process to select the 21 Featured Projects going to the NetSquared Conference, and want to see what happens next, take a look at the Conference Agenda.
The 21 Featured Projects will have the benefit and challenge of being reviewed by experts in technology, economic sustainability, and social impact.
Peter Dietz has started a personal fundraising campaign
to raise an extra $500 for each of the 21 Netsquared Featured
Projects. He has set up campaigns on seven different personal
fundraising platforms: ChipIn - FirstGiving - GiveMeaning - SixDegrees - Fundable - Change.org - JustGive.org
Britt Bravo points us to "Socially Responsible Idol" a write up about the NetSquared Innovation Award nomination and voting process by Jessica Guynn on SFGate.
We're hearing some early tweets about Netsquared on twitter ....
Social Media
I'm
hearing some complaints about the distract-ability of social media.
So, blog posts with tips on productivity are very much appreciated.
Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called
"10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity.
Rory Gale has a nice post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause"
BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response.
If you want to be see photos being posted to flickr via a moving and zooming map interface, check out flickrvision - it rhymes with twittervision.
The Daily Rebellion blog gives nonprofits some tips for using MySpace for members and money.
JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media.
An excellent primer about
RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different
outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building,
and others.
Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds.
Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular.
Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World."
And now, you can bookmark Second Life locations (called slurls) into del.icio.us without leaving the virtual world!
There
are different flavors of Creative Commons licensing, some encourage
remixing more than others as the Learn Online blog points out in the "The Illogical rhetoric of Share Alike"
Ruby Sinreich points us to Liza Sabater's manifesto on People Powered Politics based on the seminar Cluetrain Mainfesto.
Christine.net writes about recommendations engines. (You know, I'll have what she's having). She shares four Recommendation Paradigms to Watch.
Reports, Conferences, and Webinars
The
Pew Internet and America Life Project recently released report on the
"Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users" has
created a buzz in the nonprofit tech spaces. The big question, what about that other 41%?
Robin Good's site has published a summary of a report by Australian Flexible Learning Framework called "Social Software: What It Is And How It Impacts Individuals and Organizations"
Reading the live blogging from the PDF Conference and twittering is making a lot of us wish we were there.
If
you were not lucky enough to get to Australia to attend the Connecting
Up 2007 Conference (the nonprofit technology conference for Aussies!),
you can catch up with Mike Seyfang's live blogs, twitters, pipe, and more, including this interview with Daniel Ben-Horin from CompuMentor.
Katya Andresen points us to "Story Telling As Best Practice" online free training with Andy Goodman.
Webinars about personal fundraising (with Kevin Bacon) and Open Source Software (Michelle Murrain) over at NTEN next week.
Online Communities, Conversations, and Comments
The AFP Blog points us to a good resource about "How to Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community"
While several years old, Commoncraft's post "What are the differences between message board and weblogs? is still relevant.
Jon's comments on plone comments.
Check this out, an entire blog devoted to Webinars!
Online Web Applications and Nonprofit Software
The Non-Profit Tech Blog interviews Scott Crowder, Kintera CTO. (If you pop out of your browser to visit, you'll see the NpTech Meebo Chat Room.)
Katrin Verclas at NTEN is in love with Google Analytics V2 and so is Laurie Quinn. It's prompting some conversation in nptech space and beyond.
According to the NTEN blog, Salesforce and Salesforce Foundation has released a wiki documenting the nonprofit template. Nonprofit Tech Blog points us to the Nonprofit Success Guide wiki.
If you've heard the term Enterprise 2.0 and not quite sure what it is, here's an excellent presentation that explains it in plain English.
Jon Stahl found a nifty online slide show web application.
Gmail integrates PowerPoint presentation tool for attachments. How cool is that?
A roundup of five online video editing suites.
None of these free services is going to put installed desktop video
editors out of business, but they provide some easy ways to get started
with video editing.
We all know what a pain it is to schedule meetings via email. There are online applications that are designed to make that an task easy. Here's one that showed up in the NpTech Tag Stream: Doodle.
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