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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations. Definitely a trend to keep your eyes on as Internet TV begins to penetrate our living rooms in coming years. Viddy :: viddy.com.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He came back the next day and gave me unbelievably positive news. A new copyright exception has been adopted nationwide just a couple of years earlier, the Chafee Amendment (also known as Section 121). I went right away to my lawyer, Gerry Davis, and told him of my vision, which I worried might be illegal.

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New Year’s Resolutions for Grantmakers

Connection Cafe

Everyone’s favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted last year that January 1 st is astronomically insignificant (which did prompt the best response ever: kudos @theseantcollins, spoken like a guy that puts definite articles in front of his name). Britain didn’t adopt January 1 as the New Year until 1752; Thailand didn’t until 1941.

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Wade Roush suggests some continuous computing tools that ought to benefit npos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(He wrote the article on the August issue of the TR on Continuous Computing called " Social Machines " definitely worth reading.). Interesting, Wikicities was mentioned by SJ Klein during the Berkman Center Thursday blogger meeting session on wikipedias. (I I hope to post an interview with SJ soon.) One is wikis.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There were five organizations participating. One organization did not finish the program. Can't just build a blog and let it be. They replaced the organization. by Iulian Commanescu The definitions are fluid when it comes to Web 2.0. He selected some definitions from the Internet. What is Web 2.0

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. However, very few people use these terms precisely and almost nobody agrees on the exact definition of these terms. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.