NGO/NPO Meme - tagged by Nancy White

I've been behind on my reading and blogging due to craziness at work and issues that needed to be attended to with children (don't ask).  As a result, been behind with the online/blogging part of my life.  I didn't see that practically a week ago, Nancy White, tagged me with the NGO/NPO Memo.

So, the meme goes something like this -- What are the five resources that you would recommend to anybody working in an NGO who wanted to know about information management and technology but didn't know where to start ....

So here's a little Saturday night thinking out of the box ... and no particular order of priority ...

1.    Nancy White's Full Circle Blog:   This is one of my favorite NGO blogs, but I must admit that I often hesitate to click over when I see new posts.  Why?  Nancy's blog is a combination candy store stocked with high quality dark chocolate and a rabbit hole ... that is I love the content, consume way too much, and can spend a lot of time wandering around having a wonderul time. 

2.   Nonprofit Online News: This is written by Michael Gilbert and is probably the oldest blog that covers nonprofit issues.  I did an interview with Michael back in May, 2005 and it is just fascinating to learn about his content gathering process.  Anyway, if you are interested in nonprofit resources, this is a great blog to follow.

3.  Nonprofit Technology Pillars:   I'll admit these resources are North Americancentric and I apologize (hopefully my global nonprofit colleagues can name the pillars of other continents and leave referrals in the comments ...).  The pillars would include Npower, N-TEN, OneNorthWest and TechSoup.  I want to find Nonprofit tech resources beyond the America's borders, I also start searching on Itrainonline, DigitalDivide Network, or Development Gateway ICT section.

4.  NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 Resources Part 1:   If you have your feet firmly planted in the world of Web2.0 and read blogs or blog yourself -- here's a few resources that I'd definitely recommend.  These are "individual" s or blogs written by individuals.  Many are written by colleagues who I know.  Marnie Webb, Katrin Verclas, Jillaine Smith,  Patricia Perkins, Ed Batista, David Geilhufe, Jon Stahl, Michael Stein (West Coast), Michael Stein (East Coast) Andy Carvin, and all the rest of the NPTECH (individual) blogs listed on Beth's blog's sidebar.  (Even though Nancy's meme post mentions these blogs, I have to mention them again because I also find them very valuable reading:  Britt, Joistke, and Marshall).  You can find even more nonprofit blogs at the nonprofit blog exchange, an idea started by Deborah Finn and managed by Emily.

I probably should stop, but if you want to focus on what women are blogging about in the nonprofit space, check out the blogher ngo/npo blogroll.  Also, educational technology bloggers are great resources to read if you are interested in technology for learning.  My personal favorite is:  Alan Levine's CogdogBlog - although I have some equally excellent edtech blogs on the sidebar of my blog.

5.  NGO/NPTECH Web2.0 Resources Part 2:  These are the organizational or institutional web2.0 resources.   Netsquared and ConsultantCommons both from CompuMentor.  The OneNorthwest Knowledgebase is a great resource for more technical information from the good folks at OneNorthWest.  The N-TEN blog is an excellent source.  Holly and Joe and Michael Stein (West Coast) and a few others contributor.   

The Nptech and Net2 tags in flickr, delicious, and technorati are also good knowledge streams to dip into .... (I must confess that I can't totally keep up with all the posts - so I dip in when time permits and when I do, I always find great stuff ...)  On the social networking end, I would swim through the various frappr groups that are nonprofit technology related.  You can jump down this particular Rabbit hole starting in my frappr and please put yourself on my map.

I am wondering whether or not I'm supposed to tag a few folks too? 

 

And, I guess I should create an opml file like Marshall .. but I have go read Marshall's introductory pages and figure out how to do it.  In the meantime, there is the public nptech bloglines account that I think Marnie set up ages ago ...which probably is exportable as opml file.

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Comments

[Andre Quintos]

Thanks again!

I've been mulling over this problem on-and-off for the past few weeks. This will help. Just have to apply this to the Philippine setting.

[Beverly Trayner]

Thanks Beth for the Nonprofit Technology Pillars. In a couple of months I might have one in Portuguese to share!

[Nancy White]

YES! Tag more folks! I mentioned to Paul, we should have also created a tag to track the meme. Ideas?

[John Howes]

Thanks for the tag. I can give a stab at Pillars for the UK - well England to start with (could do N Ireland and Scotland too but not Wales!). How do you do links in a comment here?

Lasa Knowledgebase
CITRA
ICT Consortium

And possibly my site, VolResource (volresource.org.uk)! I need to do some work on updating the site, especially as there has recently been some major government funding to help develop such support. Things are just getting going on the ground.