The offline wikipedia, Moulin.
NpTech Themes
Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: http://nptech.info. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections.
DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here, here, here, and here. Marshall Kirkpatrick, longtime Netsquared blogger, is now working with Splashcast also at DEMO 07 this week. Check out this splashcast channel with a nonprofit theme created by Netsquared Blogger, Britt Bravo.
Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: The most recent is a roundup of posts addressing the question of how nonprofit communicators can cut through the clutter to engage overloaded audiences. Definitely a must-read, particularly the post by Steve Bridger on the power of storytelling. Maybe it is time to re-read the nonprofit version of Flipping the Funnel?
Vendor and Tool Talk: Personal Democracy Forum tells all on CRM Vendors according to the nonprofittechhelp blog. A list of tools and resources for Democracy Building and Civic Engagement from the Berkman-Sunlight workshop. The Network-Centric Advocacy blog says thank you to the Integration Proclamation that might help progressive organizations reach the Holy Grail: getting the technology groups use to work together! Have you signed the petition yet? Happy Birthday to drupal!
NpTech Food Metaphors: The Where Most Needed blog reports that trans fat is not only unhealthy for your body, but can harm cookie-dependent fundraising campaigns. Speaking of nonprofits, food, and eating, Deborah Finn grabs a great quote "Organizational culture eats strategy for breakfast." The Network-Centric Advocacy blog explains.
NTC Blog Buzz: We're just two months shy of the NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference) nptech blogs are buzzing. East Coast Michael Stein
who is based in DC is delighted he doesn't have to get on an airplane
this year and is hosting a session on microformats. Zen of Technology
blog grumbles about a different sort of micro. Here's a back to the future video from NTC back in 2000 when it was called the roundup. Check it out.
Personal Fundraising and Open Source Deductions
Article in the Seattle Times about personal fundraising, Hoping To Help Darfur $1 at a Time that focuses on Darfurwall.org that has successfully raiased $30,000 in very small donations - $1 per person.
Declaring Open Source - a one-line patch to the US Code would make open source software a charitable deduction.
Mobile, Internet and Virtual Activism
NTEN and MobileActive.org recently announced the release of the second MobileActive Guide, a joint project of NTEN, Green Media Toolshed, and MobileActive and funded by the Surdna Foundation
e.politics blog summarizes a case study on the Republican employment of cell phones and SMS text messaging in the 2006 election presented at the January Mobile Monday meeting in DC.
An Introduction to Activism on the Internet recently turned up in the tag stream, and while almost two years old, a solid primer.
The e-Campaigning Tool for plone can do petitions, letters to targets, and other campaign related activities.
CivicSpace On Demand, a web-based solution for cms, crm, email, and fundraising tasks for progressive organizations, announces it public release. Other blog coverage here.
A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming.
Lotusmedia posts about the RootsCampSL's Smashing Success -- Avatars Against War in Second Life. Perhaps a better title, a "Crashing Success," given that so many avatars showed up that it exceeded the server's and crashed!
Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking
Do you think there are too many freaking widgets?
An interesting article title, "Wikis are Not Knowledge Management Tools" speaks to how wikis are not a better tool for KM, but about being able to work differently.
Unthinkingly points us to the last mile wikipedia, a 400,000+ article no-images version of the wikipedia that fits snugly into a CD and launched by Geekcorps. It's called Moulin. (See Ethan Zuckerman's post offers some thoughts about the content that will be loaded into the One Laptop per Child laptop.)
Yahoo has acquired MyBlogLog, two years from now will the community get pissed off?
New (to me) Nonprofit Blogs
MoloTech blog is about ICT for social upliftment. Check out the Digital Hero Book Project.
Charity Newswire blog provides the UK perspective on fundraising.
Beyond Giving looks at new ideas, best practices, and good advice for nonprofits and donors.
The nonprofit curmudgeon points to a new blog, a kindred spirt, the 501(c) Suck
And, on the theme of being cranky, "Then There Was The Time: The People Who Build Our Websites Are Garbage People" blog.
Nonprofit Online News adds Gavin's Digital Dinner to its author network.
A new blog platform for fair-minded bloggers.
Perhaps this article will inspire more nonprofit bloggers?
Cross-posted at Netsquared
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