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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Toronto, Ontario: How to Develop and Deliver an Effective Pitch.

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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

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. NpTech Community. " Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter." What is this new network-centric world?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks. Social Network Fragmentation.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. nonprofit technology news NPTech news wearable computing Google Glass singularity'

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. That's the only way of achieving the necessary economies of scale to get the price low.

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