NpTech Tag Summary: Global Day for Darfur, Netsquared Innovation Support Network, and Multi-Tasking Tips

from Global Days for Darfur Flickr Stream
Photo from Genocide Prevention Network

NpTech Community News

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Congratulations to Britt Bravo for "Best Blog of the East Bay Area!"

Wayne Glynn, Jr has posted "Wayne's Story" about his cancer treatment.   We're wishing you well!

NTEN Executive Director Katrin Verclas was recently featured on a short spot on ABC talking about how nonprofits are making use of some cool technologies to further their missions.

Open Content and Open Business models continues to be a hot topic on the NTEN Affinity Group according to this recent post over at iCommons.

As noted in the Give and Talk Blog, there was some superb live blogging from the Council on Foundations Conference this week, particularly from Tactical Philanthropy, Lucy Bernholz and Michael Gilbert.

Net Generation Education and Multi-Tasking

Robin Good's site has an article titled "Learning Independence: New Approaches For Educating The Net Generation" and written by Kassandra Barnes, Raymon C. Marateo, and Sharmila Pixy Ferris.  The article takes an indepth look at how today's young people learn differently as a result of growing with digital technologies and the Internet.   There's some important insights in the article about their learning styles and their more independent and self-directed approaches that have grown out this generation's ingrained habits of seeking and retreiving information from the Internet.    Hat tip to Michelle Martin.

The above article also touches on multi-tasking, describing motivations and reasons for its use by young people and points to a study that found that young people (aged 6-14) pack 8.5 hours of media usage into 6 hours in part because they are using multiple media simultaneously as this landmark study indicates.  Jon Udell recently posted about multitasking tradeoffs: individuals versus group productivity and suggests that the question is should we multi-task, but what is the best way to do it?

Nonprofit Software and Technical Support

Salesforce.com Foundation is excited to announce the second annual Turn It Up grant round! These grants, valued at 10,000 USD each, are designed to help existing salesforce.com license donation recipients enhance their use of the salesforce.com application.

An interesting article about how remote diagnostic services can make tech support less hellish.  Is anyone offering this in the nonprofit sector?

A long laundry list of nonprofit software from the NonprofitExpert

Allan Benamer of the Non-ProfitTech Blog points us to Blackbaud's new product releases and shakes his head.

Web Video, Photos, and Live Concerts

The Age of YouTube: Using Video Online to Reach the Masses was a session at NTC that I wanted to see, but missed.  Good thing the whole session (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5,) is available on NTEN's Blip TV Channel! (The session slides and materials are here)

In a recent article, Robin Good suggests that if you're ready to run out and create video for the Web, be sure to check out this excellent resource and community "Make Internet TV"

EchoDitto Blog writes about "Rapid Video Response: Speed Kills" and suggests that housing videos on YouTube is no way to run a fundraiser/advocacy campaign.

UStream -- The new thing is live video stream your life .... the twitter of video.   However, some high profile video bloggers like Scoble have been using it to do live reports from conferences.  Maybe some Nptechers will play with this?

Mary Anne Devine points us to a recent article by David Patrick Stearns about how the Internet is paving the way fo rthe Global Concert Hall.

Genocide Intervention Network posts the most recent images from the global days for darfur

Graphic facilitation is the art of facilitating a meeting with visual representations of the concepts being discussed.  Nancy White is a practitioner and you can find terrific examples in her flickr stream.

RSS, Tagging, and Virtual Worlds

Webblogg-ed shares some tips about how to create topic specific portals in Pageflakes with feeds.

Marshall Kirkpatrick offers some great tips for nonprofits on How To Create RSS Feeds For Nonprofit Organizations.  Meanwhile, Marshall has been busy at SplashCat according this news on the NTEN Blog.

While some experts say that tagging will replace search, others say it will enhance search.  So, if you're looking for alternative ways to search, check out this list of "The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines"

Joitske Hulsebach shares some lessons learned from a community tagging project called NPk4Dev.

Interested in learning more about social bookmarking and tagging or want to introduce it to colleagues on staff?  Check out this new wiki called NPtag

Del.icio.us is no longer like watching paint dry.

Check out the Cancer Survivor's Wall of fame in SL - it benefits the American Cancer Society.

Social Networking, Social Media, and Marketing

Jon Stahl asks "Are you over-concerned with "shiny'?  Michelle Murrain answers.

Peter Campbell has a thoughtful post about Social Source Commons.  He asks "... it’s
just not enough to have the data without the wisdom of the community and who can provide that?"   TechCrunch seems to say the same thing about Wakoopa, a social networking site that allows people to share playlists of their desktop applications.

There have been a number of niche social networking sites geared towards educators, librarians, or nonprofits using the NING platform.   If you are considering using NING for a project, be sure to check out this screencast explaining the set up and configuration.

JournalMarketing has some advice for small organizations that wish to pursue a social media strategy.

Robin Good has an article that covers the fine points of thinking through the design of your blog so it is effective.  Blog titles or headlines are really important to craft to encourage traffic and to ensure reading of the full post.

Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has releases survey results that many nonprofits fail to track marketing impact, while Katya Andresen points to a new book on conversational marketing.

New (to me) Blogs

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Fighting the Good Fight - the blog of Texas Riogrande Legal Aid

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.  These weekly summaries are brought to you via TechSoup's Netsquared project.   You can find the columns here.   The summaries are released on cc 2.5 license and you are encouraged to use, remix, and forward, with the  appropriate attribution!

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