NetSquared Community
MAPlight.org, Miro and The Freecycle Network receive most votes at last week's NetSquared Conference. (details here) A roundup of n2y2 media coverage.
How can Web2.0 contribute to development? will be the agenda for the Web2ForDev Conference in Rome this September.
Three tech for social impact opportunities ... Rising s, Pizzagati Prize Nominations, and Zero Divide Fellowships. Deadlines are approaching.
NpTech Chatter
Salesforce and nonprofit conversations were buzzing around the nptech space this week inspired by the Nonprofit Roadmap Summit and The Google-Salesforce Partnership announcement. An im from a conference participant: "The SalesForce Nonprofit Roadmap Summit was like a Buddhist retreat"
Some pointers:
- Non-Profit Tech Blog and PICnet share reports from Day 1 of the Summit, including this video of Steve Anderson laying out an effective road map for SF.com in the nonprofit sector.
- Non-Profit Tech Blog offers this frank assessment summarizing the high points and identifying some gaps
- PICnet tells us the shoemaker's children have no shoes
- Steve Anderson reflects after three days of visioning
- Patrick Shaw says that the Salesforce Foundation cares about nonprofits and points Salesforce 101 Primer (if you want to jump into the Saleforce conversation and don't know where to begin
- Check out the Nonprofit Success with Salesforce wiki! Great news for nonprofit IT directors out there looking for real life examples.
- SalesForce Nonprofit form coast to coast: Judi Sohn reports back from the first New York Nonprofit Users Group meeting.
Declarations of love were overheard on the NTEN Discuss list (you need to register and subscribe) from Gavin Clabaugh about Snagit, a screen capture program. There's even a niche topic blog devoted entirely to Snagit!
Idealware Webinars return! Databases, CRM, CMS, Email Software, Online Donation Tools, and Data Integration Basics are the topics and reasonable pricing too!
A photo of John Kenyon hugging a koala bear!
The new E-Rider site was designed by a group of nonprofit designers who started their own social enterprise in Bulgaria. Teresa Crawford urges folks to send them RFPs and consider them for work. Speaking of circuit riders, check out Circuit Rider 2.0 from Lasa.
Just back from vacation, Jason Z. of DIA blog muses on the relationship between people and their (tech) tools.
Any nptech analytics geeks out there? Two tips: Purchase this book and check out this wiki.
The London ICT Champion posts a flickr photo of one of the recently published guides on the ICT Hub site are "shifting like hotcakes." Meanwhile, Susie's blog keeps the score: Blogosphere 1, Print Media 0.01.
The headline says "Study on Nonprofit Technology Adoption Released" although it appears that only a summary is available.
Pulling my hair out blog shouts out to blackbus.org!
The Grassroots Use of Technology 2007 is just a few weeks away! It's in Lowell, MA June 22-23. Are you going?
NpTech and Social Media Roundup
The $64 Million Dollar Question!
The Tactical Philanthropy blog will revive the Giving Carnival, a facilitated discussion between philanthropy bloggers, and incorporate audio, non-bloggers, and even people who don't read blogs!
Scott Williams of Community IT Innovators releases a six-page White Paper: Audio Podcasting that examines how nonprofits are using podcasts to fulfill mission as well as the tools and techniques. Britt Bravo's 7 ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts is published on TechSoup. And a nice roundup of UK examples by Miles Maier.
Okay, you've just wrapped your brain around blogging and now comes microblogging! Hmm ... does writing shorter pieces take less or more time?
That last link took you to social sharing site for Powerpoint presentations called Slideshare. Yes, powerpoint does have a social life! And, if you check it out, be sure to join the NpTech Group.
Awesome fundraising video for Project Hope International by a video blogger who met a nonprofit staffer at NTC in April.
The nonprofit Facebook lovefest still going strong! Beaconfire gives us their take Facebook Causes and Effects and offers some tips for making your organization really stand out from the very many causes that have established a presence on Facebook. See also Wild Apricot's "Promote your cause on Facebook in five easy steps" -- tagged nptech by this del.icio.us user.
Want to put your feeds in context? Check out Robin Good's "RSS Conversation Monitor" gives you some pointers on how to check out what other people are saying about the feeds you are reading.
Michelle Martin has an excellent post about how nonprofit staffers may use wikis for work. Here's a skeptical take by Michael Laff in Learning Circuits called "The World According to Wiki" describing wikis as the new do-it-all solution to what ails the workplace. Finally, Chris Brogan gives us 5 uses for a wiki at work.
Annotation tools! For example, EverNote
Some New (to me) NpTech Blogs
The Global Independence Initiative: The Exchange Blog - covers advocacy and messaging about global issues.
The Random Stuff from Sheldon blog has been officially re-started and announced on twitter.
Rebecca Krause-Hardie is writing about arts 2.0
Apologies for a missed column last week. The blue screen of death ate my summary and I did not have the emotional bandwidth to do it twice.
The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in
2005. A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change
activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources
that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and
educate those working in nonprofit technology. Many individuals tag
hundreds of resources each week. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project,
blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.
Hi Beth -- have you considered burning a feed of these weekly nptech tag summaries? Or perhaps offering a feed-powered email subscription? I suspect there are a lot of busy people out there who don't have time to follow a bunch of blogs but find these summaries a great weekly read.
Oy, the Blue Screen of Death. My condolences, and I can certainly relate. I made the Mac switch in January when I became an independent; I love my macbook pro but if you choose to use Parallels handle it gingerly -- I've had numerous kernel panics, almost all while running xp in parallels.
Posted by: Ian Wilker | June 08, 2007 at 10:23 PM