Hi:  I'm Senior Manager for Planning and Analysis for TechSoup Global. I'm focused on strategic planning and program business planning for our social enterprises. In recent months, I've been looking into how the cloud and other new technology trends can be leveraged by civil society and how TechSoup Global should change its programs to respond to technology and industry changes.

I tag the hand that feeds me: examining aggregation and tagging in the nonprofit world

• Beth Kanter presentation 

Free and low cost wireless: Beyond coffee house loitering

• Jim Forster presentation 

Turning communication technologies into tools for free speech and free culture

• Jason Schultz presentation 

These are mostly powerpoints, with a few converted to pdf. 

From a Voice in the Wilderness to the Wisdom of Crowds: Citizen Journalism, Nonprofit Organizations and Social Change

• Dan Gillmor
• Hong Eun Taek
• Ethan Zuckerman

The $100 laptop: simplicity can be complicated

• Michail Bletsas

I tag the hand that feeds me: examining aggregation and tagging in the nonprofit world

Sorry that it's taken so long to get these up, but I'm finally getting these up. The presentations listed below are on the netsquared website. I expect to get the rest of them up next week. Please note that many speakers did not prepare a formal powerpoint presentation, so we don't have files to post for them.

Anyone could call: cellphones in the global south

• David Lehr
• Erik Sundelof

The state of open source software for nonprofits

• Andrew Aitken

Watch the video, then read the book? Video and illiteracy

• Saori Fotenos

Surfing the rolling cloud of connectivity: ICT and the developing world

• David Barnard
• Partha Sarker
  

How do you plan to deal with the problem of expensive internet access?

In many areas high bandwidth Internet access is unavailable or cost-prohibitive. How do you plan to deal with this issue?

"In March, Philanthropy News Digest spoke with Daniel Ben-Horin, founder and president of CompuMentor, one of the largest nonprofit technology assistance organizations in the world, about the emergence of this so-called "social Web" and what nonprofits can and should do to tap its revolutionary potential...." 

See Philanthropy and the Next-Generation Web

The Social Web is making it into the mainstream press more and more - See the NYTimes article from May 23, 2006, "Making Friends Was Easy. Big Profit Is Tougher"  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/business/yourmoney/23myspace.html?_r=1...

The bulk of the article is about the MySpace business model (or models). But the article notes that after Yahoo!, MySpace is a relatively close #2 in page views, and significantly ahead of MSN, Time Warner (which I assume means AOL), and EBay.

Thanks to Scott Case, who pointed this site out to me. Looks interesting - a compilation of mashups and APIs. What's most popular? Mapping mashups and the GoogleMaps API.

Hong Euntaek will speak on citizen journalism at the NetSquared conference.

Euntaek is the Editor-in-chief of South Korea-based OhmyNews (English language), one of the most successful citizen journalism projects in the world. Founded in 2000, OhmyNews is the first news website in the world to accept, edit and publish articles from its readers, in an open source style of news reporting. Only about 20% of the site's content is written by the 55-person staff, while the majority of articles are written by 41,000 freelance contributors who are mostly ordinary citizens.