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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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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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Catching up

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. I’m hoping that will provide some very interesting things to blog about over then next few weeks, as I regain my footing. Some of Web 2.0, though is more hype than useful.

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta).

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Open Source Algorithm for Metric for understanding of blogs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster. Technorati Tags: blogher nptech In particular, these are the not very interesting, subtle or telling measures used to make indexes like the Technorati Top 100 or the PubSub 100 or the Feedster 100.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. If you pop out of your browser to visit, you'll see the NpTech Meebo Chat Room.). NetSquared Community.

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