Web-Based Meeting & Presentation Glom

Over the past six months, I’ve experiemented with a number of tools for both web presentations and virtual meetings (and even learned to think about the difference between the two!). I’ve used ReadyTalk, GoToMeeting, AdobeConnect and Skype (with a plug-in).
GoToMeeting was dismissed in one instance in favor of ReadyTalk’s larger capacity, recording capability, and [...]

Free Knowledge

Well, yes, free knowledge IS what the Internet brings us, but here are some free online learning opportunities:
MIT OpenCourseWare publishes all of their course materials. For free. Special section for high school instruction and subject index available.
iTunes U offers If you’re an iTunes user, you’ve probably seen the mortarboard icon that links [...]

Serenity Now

I’m headed off to the Midwest–a place I think of as verdant green with bucolic farm scenery. I wonder if I’ll find any unexpected uses of technology there….
Where have you found unexpected tech?
As libraries reinvent themselves for the new century, that’s one place you might find it. Some libraries are even lending e-book [...]

Non-profit Techies Unite

Do you know about local non-profit tech groups? They’re springing up, and you can find the local meetings of NTEN 501 Tech Clubs via the national organization for technology in non-profits, NTEN.
Although not an NTEN affiliate, CNTC is a Colorado group of both hardcore techies and non-profit newbies.
July’s CNTC topic was measuring social media.
Here [...]

A new verb: Wolfram (or Alpha?)

This is a little outside of my usual ‘Web 2.0 for non-profits’ post, but as alerted this morning by the Fischbowl–and I love that a high school teacher is not only on the cutting edge for his students, but also keeps me posted!!,

THERE’S A NEW SEARCH ENGINE
Wolfram Alpha
Watch this. If you like data, or [...]

Step 1: Listening

One thing you can resolve to do in the new year is observe what others are talking about and doing with nonprofit social media. Just knowing what’s going on in the wide world of nonprofit social media makes you want to get on the bandwagon.
Here’s a list of tools to help you find out [...]

New Year, New Resolve

Want to learn? Resolve! I have a policy of only making fun resolutions–like adding things to my life instead of focusing resolutions on deprivation.
Here are a WHOLE bunch of links and ideas about what others in the social media realm are resolving to do with new technology in the new year. How [...]

What Politics Can Teach NPOs

I’m guessing it will be a while yet before the precise campaign strategies of the presidential election will be analyzed, and their applications for non-profits at all levels of applying social media will be digested.
Even the 2004 election’s web-savvy superstar status of MoveOn.org and Howard Dean is now eclipsed, and basically all information written about [...]

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 [...]

Why: Online Communities

Nancy White of Full Circle Associates provides a tip sheet on defining your case for developing online communities. It’s a good thing to think about why your organization wants to throw itself into the mix–and a good way to steer towards ‘fitting in’ to the mix rather than impaling yourself in the process.
She has [...]