IBM’s new Many Eyes rocks. I experimented with the nptech data last weekend and built this in about 10 minutes. It’s a very rough bubble map of the users of the nptech tag. Interesting how it shows the distribution of the tagging activity. Related: Swivel and Data360.
Number of times “nptech” was tagged, by del.icio.us username
My [...]
I am still working on developing a tool for analyzing community tags in del.icio.us, but I have run into a problem that messes up the data pretty significantly. I would be interested to know if anyone has any ideas what is going on.
The problem is this: del.icio.us says that there are about 5160 items [...]
Recently there has been a lot of discussion among the nonprofit technology geeks about the use (and usefulness) of the tag “nptech”.
When the nptech tag started one of the ideas was to gather enough data to look and see what words people were using to describe, say, open source (open source, floss, foss, open [...]
Last night I was trying to do something that I thought would be pretty simple: display a bunch of recent weblog posts on one page.
There is a great online community of folks in the biofuels blogosphere, and this page would give a quick summary of their myriad, nerdy, wonderful events and research.
So the [...]
I’ve been using this tutorial from Alexandra Samuel to set up a workflow that allows you to 1.) post to your blog 2.) post to del.ico.us and 3.) save all your links using spurl.com, all at the same time. This, I think will work well for a new biofuels …
A beta project from CompuMentor, Consultant Commons provides a platform to share and collaborate on resources around nonprofit technology consulting. I wish I could recommend this site, but it has a long way to go before it really works well.For now, at least, there are a few useful documents, but most of the stuff is [...]
From Emily’s World comes an updated rundown of the “digital divide” among nonprofits.
Where does your nonprofit fit?
1. This group has added a blog, rss feeds, and/or podcasts to their website.
2. This group has a well designed website. They are familiar with emerging technologies and are looking [...]
The concept of eRiders is deceptively simple: people with lots of tech skills don’t need to be on the staff of every NGO or nonprofit, they can “ride” a circut of folks that they help. This idea is being presented at WSIS this week, and I think it is an incredibly powerful idea that will [...]
If you like the idea of tagging you web pages and your books, how about tagging your people? Sounds a bit like info-tainment to me, but I felt obligated to post it because of the compelling freakiness of it all.
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Tagalag is a service that lets you tag people, via their email address. It’s not a [...]
Reporters Without Borders has today released a wonderful handbook of international blogging. The 84-page guide includes sections that discuss the basics of blogs and blogging terminology, and it moves quickly into a serious how-to guide for blogging anonymously and blogging successfully. This is a first for the international blogging community, and I am certain that [...]
Your dear author recently posted about the ambivalence and misunderstanding that abounds with regard to the concept of RSS. Based on this weeks hilarious (in a laughing-at-you, not-with-you way) usability survey of blogging from Catalyst Group Design, blogging (yes, the entire concept) is about a mainstream as the Kabbalah.
The people they interviewed (about 25 [...]
This post from Tech Soup is a good, brief introduction to the use of databases in your organization.
The author of this article (a nice techie from ONE/Northwest) finds that you should really call in the professional to get things set up — I would agree, but don’t let that keep you from learning how to [...]
Techsoup just announced that they have Symantec Antivirus with multiple user licenses for under $100. (Single user licenses start at $100.) If you haven’t priced antivirus software, well, that’s a bad sign. Unless your’e on a Mac, but that’s a different post.
Bottom line is that you shouldn’t be paying anything near full price for [...]
After getting back from a lecture at the most recent N-TEN Tech club meeting, I found myself enlightend as to the way of the podcast.
Brian Russell is a stand-up guy doing a lot of grunt work with the development of podcasting as a tool of activist. His website does a great job of explaining the [...]
File Under: It’s a blog subscription service. And a distribution service for your blog. And one of the S’s stands for “Simple.” And it’s free. Which means, File Under: It rocks.
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If you are investing money in a website with a social justice purpose (do, please), you of course need to be thinking about getting people to your site.
Have you read The Gilbert Center’s “Email Manifesto”? It is absolutely the best crystallization of the shape your online strategy should take: make your web presence personal + [...]
It’s rare that you see much criticism of nonprofit organizations. People are getting *something* done, after all, no matter what particulars you may take affront to their modus operandi.
But we should all be wary of the thought-stifling, fuzzy-feeling environment that lets fundamental missions go unexamined. And it’s in that spirit I that I so [...]
Mission-Driven nonprofits have, I think, the most to gain from blogging than any other organization or type of individual. If your organization has a site, I think you really should have a blog. There are a number of clear reasons. Seriously.
The reasons to maintain a blog are all about education — which is at [...]