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Election Day Debriefs
What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. An interesting point about using MySpace: "It can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly for younger voters who tend to use email less. The key is to move MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible.
It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post "What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. "Do young people have email accounts? Yes. Do they login to them semi-regularly? Yes. Do they use it as their primary form of asynchronous communication for talking with their friends? No."
RootscampSL got off to a great start the day after election day. Events continue through Nov. 15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos.
And here's another "vertical" video host -- Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network. CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content. Here's a clip of Joe Trippi explaining how web media tools are impacting political campaigns and movements.
Second Wave Adoption
Check out Nancy White's Second Wave Adoption thats creating waves in the educational technology and nonprofit technology blogosphere. The concept is simple as Nick Booth writes: "Some people really get it and move quickly to innovate in the way they collaborate online. Behind them comes another wave (or wavelet) who are not so keen and are much harder to bring on board."
If you have thoughts about Second Wave adoption of Web2.0 tools and nonprofits, be sure to tag 'em with 2ndwave
(And, if you're wondering how Nancy embedded her powerpoint, she did it with SlideShare (more here).
Social Networking
There's still time to contribute a post to the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants compilation of Nonprofit Use of Social Networking Tools. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites. For some context, check out this timeline of social networking sites from Dannah Boyd.
Tagging and Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging.
Wikis
The Commons is a free collaborative online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help. It is written, edited and produced by students and other volunteers in the valley. It launches with an 11/11 orientation. What I really like that they are providing extensive help, including screencasts and live chat. They understand what's needed to encourage adoption.
On a lighter note, take a few minutes to view this hillarious video, WikiKitchen, on how to turn your kitchen into a wiki. Love it!
Games for Social Change
gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and
My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens. (The library community has a large presence on Second Life at Information Island which is where the TechSoup SL Virtual Office is located. )
Podcasting
The ABCs of Podcasting from PND covers how Web sites of public radio stations, museums, and other education-oriented nonprofits are turning to podcasting as an increasingly popular and inexpensive way of delivering audio programming.
Video Blogging
Steve Garfield offers this advice when selecting a video host for your videos: Be aware of where you put your Creative Commons Non-Commercial videos. (An the choices continue to multiply, this beta from AOL, uncutvideo. And if you don't want to give your content over to corporate giants or get paid pennies by having ads slapped on your stuff, maybe just created your own little YouTube with ning and there is always hosts like this and this.
Vlog and Blog Raising
Lost in Light is a videoblog about small gauge filmmaking featuring home movies, work by artists, articles by preservationists and film scholars, video tutorials and other film gems. Its part of the "Have Money Will Vlog." These are examples of vlog or blog raising - raising money from people via your blog.
The beta launch of ChipIn, a fundraising widget for blogs, will make blog raising easier. A few tests going on here and here
NpTech Blog Search
The nonprofit techhelp blog creates a customized search of nptech blogs here.
Newly Discovered NpTech Blogs ...
A few interesting UK-based blogs to check out in the nonprofit technology space ...
YouthNet Blog which offers insights into youth issues, volunteering trends, charity life and more in the UK.
Podnosh from Nick Booth who is writing about nonprofits and social networking.
And while we're looking at Web2.0, Nonprofits, and the UK - check out this article from the ICT Hub on Web 2.0 by Simon Pavitt. According to Websitesthatsuck.com, this website was one of the worst and it's a nonprofit! Wonder whether the worst blog in the world is from a nonprofit too?
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GREAT Post. Thanks for aggregating so many fabulous links.
Posted by: MatthewS | November 10, 2006 at 06:04 PM
in terms of Vlogging there are cool video sharing sites such as Youtube and Motiono here's a link http://en.sevenload.com/videos/Ocb9YNx/Motiono-com-3 which is a motiono.com promo, youtube is of course at Youtube.com
Posted by: Motiono | June 25, 2007 at 12:13 AM