Nptech Tag Summary: On Web2.0, Everyone Knows You're A Dog!

From Doggysnaps.com, a photo sharing site run by the UK-Based charity, Dogs Trust.  Read the interview on NFP 2.0

Nonprofit Social Media Resources and News

Steve Bridger reports on the Dog Trust’s photo-sharing community, DoggySnaps.com and describes fabulous design, adoption of features such as tagging, and impressive attention to detail.

How much is that virtual doggy in the window?   I had to control myself with the doggy and Internet puns. But Cogdogblog didn't.   Allen Levine  is writing about his experience using virtual worlds as an instructional platform with In Second Life, Everyone Knows You are a dog.   

Here's a good primer on podcasting from mediashift.  Speaking of podcasts, Britt Bravo marks the one-year birthday of her podcasting efforts with a post listing all of the interviews she has done!  My favorite is the interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea. Britt also has a post recommending podcasting tools here.

Nonprofit Communications blog invites everyone into the blogtipping fun!  Designing for Civil Society and the Bamboo Project invite you to a wiki carinval.  I might not be able to resist if there is cotton candy!   

Saidia loves firefox.  Here's why.

The Genocide Intervention Network reports that activists efforts are seeing a range of successes.

The Gallaudet University Alumni Association uses YouTube to speak to it's constituents in sign language.  Andy Carvin points us to Amanda Baggs who vlogs her way through autism.

The NTC Video contest deadline (NTEN and See3) is fast approaching ...

A tool that converts RSS feeds to pdf, email, web pages, etc has already gotten 2 votes on the NpTech Pligg (open source digg) site.

  Nonprofit Software Talk
 
Anarchogeek takes a break from working on pipes and attends the NonProfit Developer's Summit.  Reflections here.  Jon Stahl sends off a big love bomb to Gunner, Heather, Tim, and the hundred other participants. There is an APIooza in the works. 

Let's Talk: How Open APIs Can Change How Nonprofits Manage Data was published by NTEN.  It's a must read!  I sure hope Michelle gets her computer fixed and can get back to blogging.  In the meantime, here's an interview.

  13 Things to do immediately after installing Ubuntu is a list of items that will help you make the transition from Windows to Linux with dual booting easier.  This article is just screaming for a screencast.
 
  Ruby discovers how addicting Many Eyes (data visualization software) can be.  I'm sure that Chris Blow agrees.
 
  DIA Plans to integrate with Drupal, PHP, and more.
 
Papilia and Chipin are doing an integration that meets each other over the Salesforce.com field.  Allan Benamer notes that it is fascinating to see this convergence.  More here.
 
Blackbaud Merry-Go-Round and the Cost of Closed Systems is an analysis of Blackbaud's 2/28 Edgar Filing from Allan Benamer. 
   
Acorn Active Media provides software, website, and technical development in support of global justice movement. 
   
   Cooperativa del Sur is a cooperative specializing in high quality software development and information services in Uruguay.
   
Reports from Conferences and Face-to-Face Gatherings Worth Your Attention

  Deborah Finn gives us a report the Games for Change salon at MIT last week.
 
  There's a recap of notes from the DC Netsquared Meetup featuring Katya Andresen presenting about Sixdegrees.org
 
  Britt Bravo attended the Nonprofit Software Developers Summit and published these interviews with Gregg Swanson of HumaniNet and Theresa Crawford.
 
  Last week I presented at the Integrated Media Conference where public broadcasters were wrapping their brains around social media.  I mentioned the NpTech tag and encouraged them tag items they felt were important for nonprofits to know about with the tag.   So, delighted to find that someone tagged this page. It lists the most important presentations from the conference.  This is an excellent practice that hope other nonprofit technology conferences will adopt.   
 
  There isn't such a page (yet) from the Beyond Broadcast Conference that took place immediately after the Integrated Media Conference.   I attended and if you do nothing else, take a 20 minutes to watch and listen to the video of Henry Jenkin's Keynote on Participatory Culture and Democracy.
 
  Andy Carvin has some good coverage from both gatherings.
 
  Upcoming Conferences and Meetings Found in and out of Upcoming
 
  New Organizers Institute is offering a training on online organizing for nonprofits in DC on March 9th.
   
   The Allied Media Conference brings together culture producers, media workers, artists and activists.
 
  Suzanne Seggerman from Games for Change was interviewed by Jonnie Goldstein at Beyond Broadcast.  I watched the interview.  Suzanne mentioned (off-camera) that the annual Games for Change Conference will be mid-June in NYC.
 
I wish that there were online notes or some artifacts left behind and a link added in interesting upcoming announcements like this one.

Micro and Macro Philthanthropy

The lastest project on HaveMoneyWillVlog is just $400 shy of making its goal. Sandeep is buying 4 cameras that will be given to 4 families who have loved ones in jail. The videoblog will let families show how they are coping.  That's a cause worth ten bucks from me.

  The next Top Ten Campaign list will be published next week.  Meanwhile, check out Britt Bravo's list.  You'll find a collection of case studies and lessons learned here.

Katya Andresen points us to some useful reports and statistics about online giving and direct (snail) mail.

A few good conversations
   
   An interesting question on the TechSoup forums about organizational structure and the IT department.
   
   Riffing on a post by Allan Benamer from almost a year ago about knowledge workers,  Michele Martin asks "What other elements do we need to create a climate that supports informal learning?"
   
   Change is happening ... what's your theory of change? asks the See3 blog.
   
   Why do nonprofit geeks like to write poetry?  Jason shares some Public Inquiry Poetry (lines excerpted from email messages received from their contact form), Ruby shares a poem about a laptop, and Holly points to Geek Love Poetry.  But the all time classic was Dan Scharfman's "There once were some techies ..."
   
   And if you don't feel like talking and want to curl up with a good book, NTEN recommends Nonprofit Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge.
 
Newly Discovered Blogs
 
  World Grows Wide: An Australian Nonprofit and Philthanthropy Tech Blog
  from Emily Turner.
 
  Nonprofits in Second Life, a group blog is covering nonprofit activity in Second Life.
 
  The Chronicle of Philanthropy launches the Give and Take blog which is covering nonprofit blogs.

Michele Martin provides three blog tips to three nonprofit bloggers.

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, writes a weekly summary. 

You can find the columns here:  http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter. The summaries are released on cc  2.5  license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the appropriate attribution!