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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Even an organization with the marketing muscle and international support of OLPC can't avoid infighting over whether or not they should build a version of their system featuring Microsoft's distinctly unfree Windows XP. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Money, it's a drag.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

It morphs this way and transmogrifies that way and reveals new cracks in the systems we use each and every day -- from our cellphones to ATMs to voting machines -- providing fertile ground for those with malicious intentions to infiltrate our data and productivity. Wolfe , Marin Institute. Security is always changing and evolving.

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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. as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. From Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media comes a pointer to the Findhabeas.com campaign on myspace and possibly other places.

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

Museum 2.0

A taxonomy’s rapid progression from analytic description to normative system—literally becoming a pedagogical conscience—warrants caution. side, consider these different major venues: A little explanation: Wikipedia is mostly about content. MySpace is mostly about personal identity within networks.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing.

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