Net Tuesdays or Net2 Local gatherings provide a chance to connect locally with all those interested in the intersection of social technologies and social change. There are new groups forming every week: Join in!
If you read this blog, you probably already know that NetSquared is a project of TechSoup, but in case you don't know, TechSoup has a separate web site from NetSquared, and over the last few months they have written a slew of awesome articles about how nonprofits and NGOs can use the social web for social change. They are all worth bookmarking so check 'em out:
Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 to Change the World by Marnie Webb
Seven Blogging Tools Reviewed via Idealware
How to Record, Edit and Promote Your Nonprofit's Podcast by Karen Solomon
Exploring the World of Wikis by Brian Satterfield
What Can Social Networking Do For Your Organization? by Brian Satterfield
Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging a compilation of two articles, one written by Alexandra Samuel an the other by Ruby Sinreich
RSS for Nonprofits by Marnie Webb
Mapping an End to Hunger in New York City by Brian Satterfield
33 Days And Counting - In case you wanted to but forgot!?!
Just a reminder to all you super geeks out there, Microsoft's Develop without Borders Challenge is still on.
It's a great opportunity for collaboration as well as skill building. https://www.developwithoutborders.com/prizes.aspx
Best of luck and Have fun!
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another TS resource
Plus, we've got a whole bunch more Web 2.0 articles and resources on our Web 2.0 toolkit.
http://www.techsoup.org/toolkits/web2/index.cfm