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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

AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! New (To Me) Blogs Living on $2 Day @ UMW students will live on $2 a day if you donate money to Kiva to support a loan to Gurbat in Azerbaijan.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is Openness? While some headlines might proclaim that Open Source is meaningless in the nonprofit sector, the issues as Holly Ross of NTEN says, "The question isn't really about open source, but about openness." " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director?

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

You can even be a student, or anybody who frequents cafes, or you can work from home. Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki. I mean it's really heavily influenced by the open source community and the ethos of sharing.

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