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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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Tagging on Twitter? #nptech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. His point 5 is something that sounds like a dream come true to me to monitor Twitter for NpTech related items I know I'm not alone in finding it much easier to share information over Twitter than by blogging or tagging in a social bookmarking app.

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Cross Blog Discussion: NpTech Tag

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I think that the scanning the NpTech Tag can provide a zeitgeist. For an experiment, here's some conversation questions about the NpTech Tag. How are you using the NpTech Tag? I admit it.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). NpTech Talk and News. Want a fuller description of FriendFeed? Read this ).

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). Second, is bookmarking.

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Photo by SpacePotato. Johannes).

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today??? " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed.

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