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...

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...

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Trixbox without tears slightly out of date, but very user-friendly!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)

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...

Last night, I had an opportunity to meet some CPSquared colleagues face-to-face in Cambridge for dinner. Not wanting to miss an opportunity to play with my new toy, err, learn how to use my new tool, the Nokia N95, I...

| View | Upload your own I thought I had posted this case study from the NTC 08 Panel called "Social Media Case Study Slam" already, but looks like I didn't. This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the...

At the Minnesota Nonprofits and Technology Conference, someone from the audience asked me about good resources for parents (and teens) about Web2.0 safety issues and what parents should know about their children's media use. I'm doing a bit of research...

FreePBX recommended by richard amerman. (tags: asterisk phone-systems) trixbox CE, an Asterisk-based PBX Phone [...]

Dank Apps (creators of the popular Lotto app) has launched a new series of Social Change applications that allow Facebook users to raise money for a cause through advertising revenue. This means users do not have to donate, but just...

It's been about a year now since I kicked my outlook email habit and been a gmail and google calendar user. There are two things that I miss. In gmail, I wish I could sort my inbox by subject line...

Take this three question quick quiz: 1. Does your work and interests include how information and communication technology (ICTs) can be used to promote social change? 2. Do you use or champion innovative uses of ICTs to work or network...

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During the workshop I did in Minnesota using the Social Media Game, the question - "We're busy implementing programs, how do we carve out the time to incorporate a blog?" The sticky note above is from 15 years ago when...

| View | Upload your own This is from a session at SXSW, a presentation by Shiv Singh from Avenue A | Razorfish, one of the largest interactive marketing and technology consulting firms. You more about his thoughts on social...

I am speechless. watch the video.