NpTech Tag Summary: The Faces of NetSquared Champions and NpTech Power of Ten Summary

The Face (book) of NetSquared Champions

The NetSquared Conference is just days away and the NetSquared blogs are buzzing with activity!   Each of the 21 Featured Projects has a project champion who will guide and support the project through conference.   They are posting their introductions and photos here.  If you're on Facebook, search for the n2y2 group!

You can find the complete conference agenda here. Not attending the NetSquared Conference but want to follow the tag stream?  You can subscribe to the Yahoo Pipe.  Find out more here.  The conference tag is n2y2.

Peter Deitz has been working tirelessly on his personal fundraising campaign to raise an extra $500 for each of the 21 featured projects.   His most recent update lists campaign donors.  A big thank you!

Sean Stannard-Stockton, author of the Tactical Philthanthropy blog, has posted a podcast interview with Daniel Ben-Horin, founder and president CompuMentor and TechSoup where they talk about the NetSquared project and the usefulness of "wisdom of crowd" techniques for nonprofits and philthanthropy. 

The conference participant introductions keep coming in! Eduardo Bejar, of Fundapi, representing Yankana, one of the featured projects, says "Hola Mundo" with a photo of himself with his right foot on the southern hemisphere and left foot on the northern hemisphere. I just love this video introduction from the good folks from Freedom for IP.

Expect lots of tweets from Netsquared next week and make friends with NetSquared on Twitter if you haven't already!

The NpTech Summary

I noticed a lot of "Top Ten" blog posts this week.   So, this is going to be a NpTech Power of Ten roundup, noting ten themes from the week.  A little Zen, but it is really hectic this week.  And, speaking of Zen, the Zen Buddhist Center is looking for an IT director.

Marnie Webb has been too busy to blog much this past month, but she finds time to tag!. Marnie tagged more than ten really good useful resources, including FullCodePress.  Looks like a teams from Australia and New Zealand will compete to build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organization in 24 hours.   Sort of like a Social Media Amish Barn Raising? 

Lots buzz about Facebook's new platform on blogs and especially on twitter (when it wasn't down for maintenance).  Buzz in NpTech space -- from blog to blog to tagged bookmarks.   If haven't ventured into facebook, check Michele Martin's "Using Facebook in Your Nonprofit" roundup.  If you're on Facebook, join the NpTech group so we can find each other!  I bet there are more than ten nptechers on Facebook.

Robin Good's "Ten Ways To Promote Your Business Using Social Media" are very translatable to the nonprofit space.

JournaMarketing points to a blog post from Kayta's Nonprofit Marketing Blog called "Don't Speak Doglish" about clear communication guidelines.  Marnie Webb tagged "Stories for Change," an online community of digital storytellers.  Check out  the curriculum resource section which has a lot more than ten resources, but not too many to cause information overload.

The title makes me think of a Alan Levine's (Cogdog) recent presentation on social media called "Being There" where he offers a rather hilarious expired, tired, and wired metaphor about dogs and the Web.  This slide show has at least ten visual jokes .... can you find them all?

The roots.lab blog (Ian Wilker) summarizes a post from the PDF Conference last week "Campaigning in Social Media:  Be Transparent, and Bet the Farm on Empowering Your Constituents."   Alan Rosenblatt, Internet Advocacy Center, has a thoughtful post on the NTEN Blog, When Campagin 2.0 Met Citizen 2.0: A Confusing Love Story.  Not a ten in these stories, but one post came from NTEN which rhymes with ten. 

Two tagging related posts.   Order is in the Eye of the Tagger (an excerpt from David Weinberger's recently published book "Everything is Miscellaneous" and Lifehack has a terrific post "Top 10 Ways To Use del.icio.us"

Some geek fun that nonprofit techies will appreciate.  Here's YouTube video about Ruby on Rails vs Java (in the style of an apple ad). Following the links, I discovered "Rails Envy"- "It's not the size of the app that matters, it's how you code it."  It would have fit nicely if there ten episodes of this show, but this was too funny to pass up.

I lost count after ten in terms of the number of Disney Movies incorporated into this brilliant Disney mashup, a Fair(y) Use Tale that pushes the definition of fair use, directed by Eric Faden and came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program.

And finally, if you are drowning in email overload, here's "10 Ways to get a grip on your email."  I'm off to tame my email box because I have way more than ten unanswered emails.

Comments

[Elliot Margolies]

Hi Beth,
I look forward to meeting you at N2Y2 and will be a "cousin" doing videoblogs as you do your live blogs. You're going to be great with all the context you bring.

I know that frustration of covering something quickly and knowing you probably missed something crucial. It brings to mind the blind folks touching the elephant and describing it according to the spot they touched. I interned at WBUR - producing daily radio news stories when I got my degree in broadcast journalism. It was enough to make me know I didn't want to be a general assignment news reporter, because running to and from a story, grabbing a couple of soundbites and constructing some quick narrative bridges, always left me wondering about that elephant.

[Soha El-Borno, Creative Apricot]

Hi Beth,

Great summary! For anyone who hasn't encountered Facebook yet, here's another resource - http://www.wildapricot.com/blogs/newsblog/archive/2007/05/23/put-your-non-profit-on-facebook.aspx”>A beginner's guide to Facebook for non-profits

I'm also on Facebook, so once you join, be sure to add me as a freind!