photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation.
NpTech Tag Talk
If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Peter Campbell, who created the site, has moved the site it's new domain http://nptech.info - so stay tuned for more updates.
It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 functionality. Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 or more like web 1.0?) They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Hmm .. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag.
More on the GetActive and Convio Merger
Jason has a post commenting on the recent release of a benchmarks study from Convio observing that findings like "Email addresses are valuable" won't surprise many people, although he notes there are few worthwhile nuggets. Michael Hoffman from See3 is worried. Allan Benamer of the Nonprofit Technology Blog continues his coverage of the software vendors with a poll to debrief the Convio merger teleconference and a hug. (Pop through your read to check out the new look for the blog too, although there are vendor ads via Google)
Sundance, the Oscars, and Nonprofit Technology?
Democracy in Action has invited everyone into the NpTech Oscar Pool
Katya Andresen from Network for Good gives us the lastest celebrity news (what no gossip?) from Sundance where she was busy running around asking celebs to join Six Degrees and getting them sign swag for charity.
Social Web and Altruism
Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions.
Social Web and PR/Marketing
An excellent post from Chris Andreson on Long Tail PR: How To Do Publicity Without A Press Release (or the Press)
Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog is hosting next week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. The topic is "How do Nonprofit Communicators Compete for Audience Attention?"
Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to "Second Wave Adoption."
Web 2.0, Politics, and Activism
If you can't be in DC this weekend to remind Congress that you voted against this war, Ruby Sinreich suggests that you head to the Progressive Island on Second Life for the Avatars Against the War sponsored by RootsCampSl.org
Hillary Clinton is using Drupal. Niels' Blog has a post called "Wanted - A President Candidate That Blogs" wondering if presidential candidates understand what it means to have a conversation online and a related post called "How Not To Blog."
Last week Ethan Zuckerman was the invited speaker at the Ethos Roundtable and also presented this talk "Looking beyond the US for activist inspiration" at the Berkman Center/Sunlight Foundation meeting. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.
Blogging as personal discovery and connected conversation with colleagues
Writing a blog regularly provides a vehicle for personal reflection and learning about your practice that can be easily shared with professional colleagues via a connected conversation. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together ... here's a few from this week:
Heather Carpenter from Aspiration has a post titled "Why It Took Us Eight Months To Get Our Network Up and Running"
Phillip Djwa writes about a youth videoconference he is organizing.
Michelle Martin writes about her experience as a non-technical programmer creating mashups with some new user-friendly tools.
After a brief hiatus from blogging, the studio 501c blog with some great advice for nonprofits on how to explore org.20 practices.
Here's a few (formally) connected conversations and roundups:
The nonprofit blog exchange has posted pointers to the last round of blog posts for the virtual event, along with a summary of nonprofit blog exchange blog posts.
Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation. Now "The Giving Carnival" over at the Tactical Philthanthropy Blog provides a roundup of several bloggers opinions.
Live Blogging Conferences ...
Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice was live blogged by Lucy Bernholz here. Anil Dash, of Sixapart, was one of the speakers. You can listen to a podcast of his remarks here. Lucy has more coverage on her blog.
The "OpenItUp" blog shares a list of commonly used excuses for not using open source as heard during the recent LASA UK Circuit Rider Conference.
A Couple of Really Good Wikis ...
A WikiTation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session. It also serves a resource leave behind! Alan Levine, CogdogBlog, invented the term and also has some excellent examples here.
BlogWikiWeb is the "wikitation" from the Web2.0 session during the Legal Services Conference Technology Initiative Grant Conference.
The Net2.0 Unplugged Research an action research project which will explore the question: How do telecentres make 'web 2.0' socially and technically accessible in emerging knowledge societies? The research is being led by Partha Partim Sarker, Co-Founder, Bytes for All. (Blog is here) There are some excellent questions raised about the impact of technology on the way people do their. So, the resulting report should be fascinating.
Check out the wiki for CivicCRM Documentation, 2007 Penguin Day Planning, and 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit.
Virtual Worlds and Video Games
Ian Bogost takes some of the fun out of video games -- and replaces it with opinion with his "playable editorial cartoons." If you're interested the uses of videogames in advertising, politics, education, and other activities, check out Ian's site, water cooler games.
Live blog notes from a session at Northern California Grantmakers briefing about Virtual Worlds and Video Games here.
Need a chuckle? See this one-page parody of Second Life.
Cross posted at Netsquared
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