NpTech Summary: Over the Shoulder Learning, Read/WriteWeb Nonprofit Series, and Doonesbury

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NpTech Talk Overheard Around the Web

Netsquared ThinkTank from last week is summarized here.  Future topics are being solicited in the comments like this one.  Others?

The Read/WriteWeb has been running a series all this week on Non-Profits, beginning with "Is The Web Still A Windfall for Non-Profits?"  Pointers to posts are showing up on the nptech tag stream, twitter, and online forums.    Factory Joe notes, "Read/WriteWeb post has a great summary of available web apps for non-profits."  I'm biased, but I kinda like this post about Non-Profits and Web2.0: Notes from The Real World.

Speaking of Read/WriteWeb, congrats to Marshall Kirkpatrick who has just joined as Lead Writer.

Nancy White is writing about Over the Shoulder Learning - check out the slideshow.

Perhaps after using one of these tools, Deborah Finn discovers, "There aren't enough hours in the day to track all the nonprofit tech jobs out there."  NTEN to the rescue!

NTEN's CRM Satisfaction Survey.  Just a few minutes.  Take it now!

An excellent thread on the NTEN-Discuss list about advice on doing webinars and summarized on the NTEN blog. The rich details can be found here on the communities connect wiki that also has some awesome instructional resources on the topic.

Holly Ross has scooped up oodles of good content in her RSS reader and lists them here.

A good list of examples of Mapping (GIS) by nonprofits at the mobile voter blog.

This weeks Nonprofit Consultants Blog Carnival on nonprofits and video is up on the Getting Attention Blog. Britt Bravo looks at blog carnivals.

The Saiadia.org blog shares some tips on how to track down information and reports about the OLPC laptop
project in Nigeria and some criticisms.

Sonny Cloward has started a blog at nonprofitCRM.org which is about helping nonprofits use and leverage Salesforce.com.   Meanwhile, if you want to follow the nonprofit track at Dreamforce, go here.

Stephen Downes writes about an Open Journal model that might work.

Studio 501c is seeking examples of Teen Blogging Projects.

Web 2.0: What to check out and what to avoid

Wondering about the history of the Social Web?  There is a slideshow called "History of the Social Web Part 2" in the nptech group on Slide Share. Hmm .. can't see to find Part 1.  Can you?

ProBlogger post provides a good short list of blog posts about how to increase traffic

How To Blog Without the Time Sink from Amy Gahran offers advice for journalists, but is of value to anyone working in the nonprofit sector who wants to blog more efficiently.

JournalMarketing shares the secret of getting worldwide promotion via flickr.

Online Philanthropy is hot hot hot!

AFB Blog points to a blog post called "Tough talk about Tagging" that proclaims tagging is old school, picked up the idea from a post by David Weinberger  that pointed to a post called "to the tough of disillusionment we go!" That phrase refers to an even earlier post that analyzed tagging using Gartner's Hype Cycle.    Thomas Vander Wal, an expert in tagging systems, shares an analysis of the real state of tagging.

Looking for demographic profiles of social networking site usage?  This terrific slide show summarizes many different recent surveys and other data.

Avenue A - Razorfish wiki introduction shows up in the NpTech Group on SlideShare.

Social Media is all about the ego, isn't it?   Least you lack of tools to monitor what is being said about your or your organization, check out this list of 26 buzz monitoring tools from Marketing Pilgrim.

Using an Online Game To Build an Activist List from e-politics blog is a good case study on video games and activist pursuits.

One of the best blog posts written about the potential opportunities that Second Life and Virtual Worlds may offer to nonprofits comes from the FrogLoop Blog.  The post is a list of takeaways after viewing a presentation from a DC-based firm doing work in Second Life.   One of the myths: Vandalism is rampant - Most sabotage is impermanent and can be prevented using land regulation controls.   The Philanthropic opportunities were even mentioned in a Doonesbury Cartoon this week.

Ten Web2.0 Marketing Strategies to Avoid from the Compassion in Politics blog

New (to me) Blogs

Mission to Learn looks promising.  It's about learning, technology and change.

Global Voices has an advocacy section - discovered because Egyptian blogger Monem threated again

BitBabble, a technology and art blog or rather art created with technology.

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.