Me and Amy Sample Ward at NTC I've been a fan of Amy Sample Ward's blog since she started it last year. We both got NTennies at the NTEN member luncheon. Almost a month ago, Amy was invited to be...

Maryrose Dunton, the Head of User Experience at YouTube, spoke to Net Tuesday San Francisco this week about the YouTube Nonprofit Program (be sure to check out the new look of their landing page).Here are a few notes from her presentation: read more

(Dear ISF Colleagues: Big props go out to the Nonprofit Quarterly, for this news about an online tool for filing Form 990s. If you'd like to subscribe to the

I'm so excited to be going to Australia next month for the ConnectingUp Conference the Australian version of NTC. I'll be presenting at the conference and doing a workshop on social media afterwards. Other folks from the US will include...

Meet Tatiana. She messaged me on Facebook: My name is Tatiana and I am currently a senior at The University of Tampa working on the final project for one of my classes, COM 425. The project involves getting opinions of...

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent. It came back last month in a new format and aggregation process. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging...

  The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent. It came back last month in a new format and aggregation process. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. read more

Dear Hannah, Thanks so much for passing this along! I also want to put in a plug for the Nonprofit Tech Jobs email distribution list as a place to post these

Dear ISF Colleagues: Indeed, all newcomers and lurkers are encouraged to introduce themselves. Here are some things that we would be interested in knowing: -

Hello, everybody, If you've ever used a Content Management System -- and I'm sure most everybody on the ISF list has -- we want you to share your opinion.

Since I think so highly of the people who post to this list, I am posting this job here. The Center for Global Development, based in Washington, DC, is looking

Welcome, Morgan! Sasha Daucus www.FundRaiserSoftware.com www.FundRaiserSoftware.com

Hi everyone! A brand new parenting magazine called CHILD has been launched..Its a great breakthrough in the parenting fraternity..Its got exciting features and a COVER HUNT CONTEST is being held which would give your child an instant fame overnight..So,what are you waiting for,c'mon come and grab a copy of CHILD...

@smalljones @dcm OK, you guys, that’s just about enough… #kinks #lyrics #overtweet # @professorkim Thanks for the recommendation for Conscious. Tagging it at @ http://www.last.fm/music/Conscious now. # Oy. I hate having to be the heavy supervisor. Urgh. # I think I need more Bjork in my life. # Glad that the Olympic Torch is meeting resistance in San Fran. [...]

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. I mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez). Carmen left me a follow up comment. It wasn't in my wiki...

Here is an update to the Fossett story. 50,000 searchers. Lots of false leads given to the Civil Air Patrol. 1. "Leads" Should have needed multiple blind confirmations. (Labor is free make redundancy your test on eliminating false leads.) 2. The user interface didn't work. 3. Poor images made the task very difficult. 4. Didn't leverage the network to sort and prioritize the volunteers. 5. Didn't realize the complexity of working with volunteers vs. Turks getting paid. Link: Online Fossett Searchers Ask, Was It Worth It?. Looking back, Diana Francis says she should have known it would be a big waste of time. She sat for hours each day in her husband's home office in Houston scouring little digital snapshots of the Nevada desert on Amazon.com, in hopes that she'd help locate vanished millionaire aviator Steve Fossett. Finally, though, she decided the exercise was tedious and unproductive. "It was so...

Trixbox without tears slightly out of date, but very user-friendly! (tags: asterisk trixbox documentation telephony voip)

This month's Net2ThinkTank question is, "How can nonprofits and NGOs succeed in the online attention economy?" A few folks have contacted me to say, "I'd like to participate, but I don't really understand what the attention economy is," so, here is a little more info: Wikipedia defines attention economics as, "an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems." In his ReadWriteWeb post, Attention Economy: All You Need to Know, Richard MacManus writes: "A key point is that The Attention Economy is about the consumer having choice - they get to choose where their attention is 'spent'. Another key ingredient in the attention game is relevancy. As long as the consumer sees relevant content, he/she is going to stick around - and that creates more opportunities to sell." In the case of nonprofits, organizations are trying to keep supporters and potentional supporters' attention in order to "sell" the opportunity to make a difference in the world through the channels and services their organization provides (information, donation, membership, volunteering, advocacy, media creation etc.). In his post, Why Words Matter in the Attention Economy, Steve Cebalt of the Nonprofit PR blog writes:read more

Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web has a scathing review of the Google Nonprofit Widget Builder. "Google Stiffs Nonprofits, Launches Second Rate Widget Builder." I'm battling a second rate washing machine from Kenmore right now, so I didn't actually put my...

Jen Lemen is a writer, illustrator, blogger and immigrant advocate living in Silver Spring, Maryland. Jen’s essays have appeared in Good Housekeeping, The Huffington Post and Imagining Ourselves, an online exhibit founded by Paula Goldmanfor the International Museum of Women...