Yes We Can Has
Hat tip Ian Wilker
NetSquared MashUp Challenge
Mashup innovators and inventors! Now is your chance to create
social change with your unique mashup idea, and have an opportunity to
win cash prizes and attend the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3). The NetSquared Mashup Challenge Project Submission Form for the NetSquared Mashup Challenge is up. Submissions will be accepted until March 14, 2008 at 5 PM PST.
NpTech Conversations
Ryan Ozimek over the PicNet Blog shares some thoughts and tips about bi-coastal living.
Jonny Goldstein, whose day job is at a nonprofit, will host Susan Reynolds and Connie Reece who his next edition of Jonny's Par-Tay on Feb. 13th. Connie Reece founded the Frozen Pea Fund to support Susan, who is battling breast cancer, to make it easy to donate funds. If you're interested in learning about these two have lead a groundswell of support to battle cancel, definitely tune into the show.
NTEN's Holly Ross gave a kicking presentation about Wireless and Mobile phone text campaigns at the recent TIG Conference as noted on the Legal Services NTAP blog.
Susan Mernit, a former consultant working at Yahoo!, is wondering about software for non-profits and ngos?
Susie cannot give a presentation at Social Source South due a problem with trains running. She reports on her attempts to use different online technologies in lieu of her physical presence.
Social Media
An article on the Read/Write Web raises the question, "Can Facebook be a platform for social change?" raises some questions about application fatigue and causes limitations.
Rebecca-Krause Hardie has an informative interview with the BSO's Associate Director of New Media. Interesting to note that the BSO has over 75,000 subscribers to its podcasts.
Social Actions gives a thumbs up to SproutBuilder. Laura's Notebook also has a review of the Sprout Flash editor and reminder about accessibility. More coverage here and do check out the Techies Valentine.
Stewart Mader, of Wiki Patterns, is running a series, "21 Days of Wiki Adoption." Day 2 is a discussion of wiki versus email. ZUP 4 Nonprofits suggests it might lead to better collaboration and a smaller in-box.
Michael Stein (East Coast) writes about one of his clients who has set up a Facebook Profile to monitor staff to make sure they don't post inappropriate material. Michael suggested that this person also post some information about their organization while they're patrolling the beat. They declined because they didn't want to spend twice as much time on Facebook. As Michael notes referring to a recent post from Seth Godin about Tribe management, "when non-profit communicators give up and join the tribe that already exists around their organization, they discover that participating in the conversation is far more powerful than policing it."
Philanthropy
Steven Cliff over at E-Democracy.Org has put together a Google Custom Search covering foundations, some government funding sites, and sites with fundraising advice for non-profits. The first (I think) use of Google Custom Search for nonprofits was put together almost over a year ago as a collaborative effort of the NpTech community and facilitated by the Non-Profit Tech Blog. Ready to make your own? Hat tip Lucy Bernholz via Tactical Philanthropy blog.
Lucy Bernholz is researching the question, "What do nonprofit networks look like, how do they work, and what does this mean for philanthropy?"
Donorpower blog asks, "Who would you hire as a writer for campaign in different media, someone with lots of experience in traditional media or a someone with less experience, but more comfort with online media?"
Peter Deitz's "When Voting and Donating Are Not An Option" points to a new project by Global Voices called "Voices Without Votes" that will monitor global citizen media responses to US Foreign and presidential politics.
Social Media Measurement and ROI
Paul Hyland has the daunting task of determining what success means for the social media efforts underway at edweek.org. He's blogged a few of his thoughts here. He's looking at traffic, engagement, and impact. For impact, he is tracking the impact of their community on the site's journalism, based on a qualitative look at the commenting.
New (to me) Blogs
Culture Scout Blog from the author of Renaissance Generation covers digital natives and the arts.
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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