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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Tools, Thoughts and Things one can Do with a little Time and Hardly any Resources blog lengthy post entitled, Village Green vs Walled Garden , talks about the challenges of getting desktop office applications users to switch. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Speaking of personal fundraising campaign, check out the " luck of seven " - an open source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change from noel hildalgo, a new york city-based activist, organizer, blogger, and barcamper. Nonprofit Tech Software + Mobile Phones = Citizen reporting?

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. Now here's a new term: Green Philanthropy. It's an open source free web meeting service. Virtual drinks are very much needed on this Facebook profile. Fundraising 2.0

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. It's quite incidental that it's a green technology in that it allows people to have significant impact without needing to travel to stricken areas.

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Mobile for Good: Trends to Watch at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

Besides being a launch pad for shiny new gadgets, MWC has also been a forum for green technology news, digital inclusion efforts, low-cost smartphones, and other mobile for good innovations. In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II.

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11NTC Science Fair Preview: Giveaways and Even More Giveaways!

NTEN

Click & Pledge Free I-POD ClientTrack by Data-Systems International Stop by our booth for a demo of ClientTrack™Online Case Management and Reporting Software. Idealware Article, reports, oh my! Grab a free printed copy of our Open Source Content Management report, our most popular articles, or more.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up

NTEN

Lots of members, including Charles Lenchner and Laura Quinn , were talking about the recent Pew research report on the use of social network by US adults over at M+R 's Progressive Exchange online community. Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation.

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