Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day
Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb, Allison Fine, and Deborah Finn. There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here.
For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary
NTC is just days away! Are you thinking about what sessions to attend or arranging to meetings with colleagues? For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. I'll come with extra blank index cards. (I'm sure there will be plenty of pens at the Science Fair.)
NpTech Talk
Marnie Webb asks "Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects?" If you have project that you've been holding in your back pocket, consider adding it!
The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9
The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development.
Gavin Clabaugh's annual PotLatch Program (a regular giveaway of gently used hardware and gadgets) has come and gone. (You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops ...
The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. The post goes on to describe a Digital Asset Management System.
Michael Stein (East Coast) tells us the difference between membership management software and crm.
Susie's Blog (winning hearts and minds over to FOSS) is on a jargon busting binge and has found a wiki that explains what all the alphabet soup of acronyms in the nonprofit sector in the UK means.
The Bamboo Project points to two excellent examples of technology stewardship from the World Grows Wide blog.
The Democracy in Action Blog has a wonderful post about the most common typos that people make. This queen of typos enjoyed that post quite a bit!
Kikono
It's moved. Update your bookmarks: http://www.kikono.org/
The sampling of some of the top rated resources this week:
- Death Threats Are Not Protected Speech
- Andy Carvin: Participate in Stopy Cyerbullying Day
- TwitterVision and Twitterfeed.com
- My Name Is Nonprofit Curmudgeon and I am an Anonymous Coward
Digital Storytelling, Media, and Communications
Telling the Story of What Drives You offers some great advice from Susan Finkelpearl from Free Range Studios.
TechSoup hosted an online event about digital story telling. If you missed it, some good articles here and here.
Donorpower Blog tells us to learn how to write differently
The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online. There's also dogooder.tv where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life.
David Wilcox gives a killer keynote at the UK Nonprofit Technology Conference Pathways to Success. He blogged his slides, a video, and some reflections. General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs. (It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Be sure to read the Third Sector Foresight Report on how nonprofits can best use social media and social networking - which was distributed at the conference.
Philthanthropy
Katya Andresen's post titled "Dying Man Throws Himself From Plane to Raise Money" is attention grabbing way to say, "I would like to see more sessions at fundraising conferences on 'how to ask donors to ask for money."
The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact. Hot debates follows in another post on charity evaluation and metrics over at Tactical Philanthropy blog suggested that we forget on a metric to measure "Total Good Accomplished" and focus on real measures. Others suggest that numbers alone don't tell the story. What do you think?
Where Most Needed blogs about the Combined Federal Campaign
Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post about the continuum of change ranging from entitlement to enterprise.
Web2.0 Tools and How They're Used
Do you find Web2.0 distracting, productivity drain?
Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. Next month, Gina Bianchini, the co-founder, will present at Net Tuesday in SF. We've already spotted a number of ning generated nonprofit related social network sites (Cool n Conscientious, Stop Cyberbullying, Library 2.0 and Classroom 2.0) Here's an interview Robert Scoble did with the Gina Bianchini where she demos how to set up your own social network.
Whether your thinking about getting a presence on a large social networking platform like facebook or myspace or a more focused network on ning, Green Media Toolshed tells us why your group should be on a social networking site and some tips - both posts live blogged notes from the New Organizing Institute.
Random Thoughts on Life and Work points us to an excellent resource on wiki adoption patterns. Has anyone put any of the advice into practice? What did you learn?
Check out scrapblog which lets you create a colleage of your photos online similar to a scrapbook page. Can anyone think of a good reason why a nonprofit would use it?
Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media
New (to me) Blogs
1cent thoughts on NPTech is another anonymous nonprofit blogger and has a post "Is technology meant to be more than a set of best practices?"
Important Projects - the organization just turned three, but I've only just discovered the blog.
Mind Bloggling is blogging community designed to provide a safe space for poeple experiencing the effects of mental ill health.
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Fantastic roundup, Beth. Thanks for all of this.
Posted by: Katya | March 31, 2007 at 06:08 AM
And I loved your provactive headline
Posted by: Beth Kanter | March 31, 2007 at 07:55 PM