VTVigils
VT Vigils
VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. They are calling on Americans nationwide to gather and hold silent, candlelight vigils to mourn those lost, reminiscent of the vigils after 9/11. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife, and an article in Wikipedia.
Netsquared Innovation Fund
Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point.
NpTech Community
Open Content for Nonprofits
Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. The media here IS the service. So how do we propose to pay for it? Deborah Finn throws in her two cents here.
And some background reading .... In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems
as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the
nonprofit techspace. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open
Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article
on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. She notes, "It
doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and
offline content income models in depth, with numbers."
Everyone Has Their 15 Minutes of Fame
gokubi.com blog writes about Faceted Celebrity in the NpTech space. He defines facet as "the intersection of the subdomains in which you are proficient" or perhaps a niche? Steve overheard this about another faceted celebrity in the NpTech world, "I first decided Jon Stahl was a legend in this community when ..."
Findhabeas
From Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media comes a pointer to the Findhabeas.com campaign on myspace and possibly other places.
Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones
Peter Campbell equates Buying Software To Buying A House, a great metaphor, inbetween working on site redesign for the NPTech Community site.
You could hear crackberry addicts screaming from miles away ... AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access.
Freecharity.org.uk shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools!
Can cell phones ensure a free vote? Election observers across Nigeria will be using mobile phones to text officials if they spot irregularities during Saturday's election. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors.
If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. You've got to love their logo.
NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer, an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use.
Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." Have any to add? Paul Lamb might. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today ... plus two file sharing services sendspace and box.net
Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy
So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. The "invited live bloggers" are Susan Herr, Tactical Philanthropy, Worldchanging and Lucy. The COF describes this as groundbreaking. Where's the conference tag? What about other conference attendees who might also be bloggers? How does one track their or the COF only letting those four bloggers live blog or are these the only four people who are attending who might be possibly be blogging? Update: Tactical Philanthropy announces the 2007COF tag!
Katya Andresen has an entertaining post about Bourbon and extracts some lessons in nonprofit marketing.
If you're lucky enough to be getting a tax refund, why not donate to a good cause? Refunds for Good is designed help you do that and celebrity Martin Sheen tells you why.
And speaking of celebrities and fundraising, Frogloop, tells us how to leverage them to raise more dollars for nonprofits. For more on the topic, read this interview from the Six Degrees of Seperation.
Social Media and Nonprofits
Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. A web site featuring multiple bloggers with offices in this space has popped up chronicling this group's experiences. Soon this empty space will start
to bustle with Linden citizens for Social Good. However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources.
In January, NMC released The Horizon Report, a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years, including virtual worlds. This month, the Horizon Wikispace, where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms. These sites are well worth exploring for the richness of learning about the application of emerging technologies and learning.
Forum One Communications has a post about NOAA's Ocean Explorer on YouTube and Braving Uncharted Water with one very commonsense takeaway about piloting before you launch and some murky policy issues around government policies and social media. (Most likely similar to those pondered by the CDC as they launched their Second Life effort last fall)
And here's a Web2.0 Onilne Learning Film Festival, EDUTube.
Rob Cottingham muses about what he do if he was back in high school, had a facebook page and a friend of his just got dumped by a boyfriend. And, Rob gives us a second example of nonprofit organization on Facebook. Finally, here's a video on YouTube on how NOT to use Facebook and not to mention also very funny.
Christine.Net attended the Web 2.0 Expo Ignite! and gives us a roundup of the winners, including Happiness Hacking.
The 9 Essential Posts That Every Blogger Should Know offers nine different genres of blog posts. This can help you get out a blogging rut. Donor Power Blog gives us nine reasons why a nonprofit should have a blog. While Forum One points out that Michael Edson of the Smithsonian American Art Museum will give a talk called "By The Time You Need A Blog, It's Too Late" at next week's seminar on blogging.
Eric Rice writes about the digital divide in California, while Web2.0 happens, I observe day laborers ..
Phil Shapiro salutes DC Web Women's 12th Year, although the women in web design stats are depressing.
New (To Me) Blogs
Living on $2 Day @ UMW students will live on $2 a day if you donate money to Kiva to support a loan to Gurbat in Azerbaijan.
Simplywired is the development blog of Dessie, an ict in development advocate from the Philippines who asks, "Is wi-fi good for developing nations?"
Heather at Aspiration is hosting the 38th Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on Management and Leadership and showcases some new (to me) bloggers like Mike Gifford and Hueina Su (be sure to read her 7 Keys to Avoid Burnout.)
Hi Beth:
Thanks so much for mentioning my blog and my post "7 Keys to Avoid Burnout". I really appreciate it!
Warmly,
Hueina
Intensive Care for the Nurturer's Soul
Posted by: Hueina Su | April 22, 2007 at 03:22 PM