OpenID

Hate all those passwords? Repulsed by the ubiquitous ‘Welcome to our website…now please log in.’ message?
OpenID is a uniform password.
And there’s tools out there to track all your passwords.
Get an OpenID (be sure to save it someplace!) and then you’ll be able to use it at any site that allows OpenID (usually signified by [...]

Twitter!

Rack another point up in the ‘converted skeptic’ column…in under 5 minutes, I’ve found Metro Volunteers’ Twitter link–that’s who originally convinced me to try this tool out, signed up for a Twitter account, added some things to my profile, and before I was done searching for ‘people to follow’*–I had two ‘followers’ of my own!

*Okay, [...]

Web 2.0 for Volunteer Management

Here’s an article on Enhancing Your Youth Program With Web 2.0 Tools, which is really a basic overview of 2.0 tools for your non-profit. There’s a bibilography of links to the tools and other info on virtual volunteering.
This is Susan Ellis’ Energize, Inc. (volunteer management guru) ‘bible’ to virtual volunteering.
Get informed, get connected: [...]

Facebook for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot blogs about nonprofits setting up Facebook for the first time.
DIOSA also blogs about MySpace 101.
FYI, there are groups, fan pages and causes at Facebook. The current recommendation I’m hearing is to set up a group. Fan pages might have more functionality, and causes are tailored to nonprofits, but Facebook users are [...]