A slide about resistance to change from a presentation about Enterprise 2.0 adoption done in the style of a comic book. From the very clever author of the corporate punk blog.
Posted at NetSquared
Net2EU: Join the NetSquared Europe List Serv and Wiki. Dan MicQuillan, the web manager for Amnesty International, continues to promote the idea of NetSquared in Europe.
NP.IT, a midsummer mixer at Google HQ on July 12th from 6:30-9 PM. RSVP here
Some Search Engine Optimization lessons learned and insights from a NetSquared community member.
Found in the NpTech Tag Stream
Sean Stannard-Stockton of the Tactical Philanthropy blog has some great coverage of the launch of the Google.Org blog. He also provides some feedback here and here, lamenting Google.org's decision to not to allow comments.
Marshall Kirkpatrick teaches us how to create multimedia map mashups using SplashCast and GoogleMaps. Think videos embedded in a google map. Check out this example from Extreme Oregon.
I love the plain English series that Lee LeFever does. Here's the latest installment. It is an excellent basic introduction to social networking sites and gives a great illustration about how social networking can be a personal learning tool -- getting answers from your network.
Web and email newsletter design! 30 free HTML email design templates that look great in all the major email clients. Did we mention they are free! Also, check out the slides for "Achieving Awesome Drupal Design" (the video can be viewed here)
code for change brings together computer science students to lead an open source software development project that furthers the online organizing work of the sponsoring organization. This summer, they are working with CiviCRM to make it into a world class online organizing platform. Check the blog for more information.
A gem of a wiki found by Heather Carpenter, Aspiration. It's called the nonprofit management wiki and comes to you by Rosetta Thurman, a self-described "young nonprofit professional" and who writes the "Perspectives From the Pipeline" blog.
Marshall Kirkpatrick tagged "Zeitgeist the Movie" into the tag stream and it is easier to watch it than describe. According to the statement page, it was created as "a not for profit expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are."
The Freeware Wiki includes reviews of freeware to try and an ongoing list of freeware to avoid. There's a weekly newsletter, called "Clif Notes" which is named after the editor, Clif, although I'm not sure because there isn't an "about" page.
Metrics for virtual worlds and social media anyone? Also, The Metaverse Roadmap is a collaborative document describing present trends towards future three-dimensional digital environments. Randall Moss from American Cancer Society is a contributor. Full pdf report here.
An interesting article about cultural stereotypes and Web 2.0 tagged in the NpTech tag stream inspired the Non-Profit Tech Blog's rant about racial stereotypes. What do you think?
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Social Media
roots.lab blog has a terrific primer called "Social Web 101 for Nonprofits" that describes why it is important for nonprofits to use social media to advance their causes.
Excellent piece by Patrick Ruffini on techPresident site called "Technology Hybrids and 2008" that describes strategies for bridging the divide between teaching the energized core on the Internet and the masses through traditional methods. The advice is to build hooks between the new and the old and article shares some tools for doing this. This is a great description of what I call "network weaving."
Robin Good's Master New Media has a piece called "Social Software: Common Issues and Pitfalls of Social Media Tools" by Joshua Porter. It's directed at developers and about how to build a successful social web application that makes everyone happy: creators and users.
NpTechers on Facebook
(Note: All pointers to Facebook profiles or pages require a Facebook account to view.)
There's
been explosive nonprofit techie activity on Facebook in the last few
weeks if I can use the over 200 friend requests I've received recently as a gauge.
I've set up a Facebook group called NpTech
as an experiment in social browsing and filtering. I'm including
pointers to useful Facebook related content and resources. Have
something to share about Facebook? Come on by!
The groups feature is a standard functionality for most social networking sites. You can set up or join a group for people with similar interests to connect, discuss, meet, exchange ideas or information. Facebook has a growing number of nonprofit technology and nonprofit "groups here's a few worth checking out (you'll need a Facebook account to view them):
Genocide Intervention Network: This non-profit, one of the NetSquared 21 featured projects, has 1920 and not surprisingly, has a very active discussion board and photo sharing section. The group also promotes its' Facebook Cause
NTEN: Established in May, the NTEN group has 336 members. Notice how they are using the Wall to promote and direct group members to their content and information on their web site.
Party 4A Purpose: Has 615 members and is the group for Party4APurpose, a free, user-generated event portal for listing charitable events. Check out the party photos!
Omidyar Network: Has just launched a group and it has 27 members. There's an active discussion thread about nominating "Empowerment's Top 10" movers and shakers. It will be interesting to watch and learn how they connect their Facebook profile to the existing online community.
Both change.org and Chipin.com have released applications on Facebook. The Non-Profit Tech blog has written a review on change.org here and Ruby thinks this is another reason to use Facebook. Techcrunch's review of Chipin's facebook app is here. These apps join project/agape - be sure to read the interview with the Non-Profit Tech blog here.
Least you think that people are ignoring other social networking sites, check out the Facebook group for LinkedIn users. There a lively discussion about the differences between the two sites.
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.
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