This March 24th, mark Ada Lovelace day by blogging about women and technology. You can find out more here on Boing Boing - Social Ch@nge has promised to blog (about non-profit women in technology, natch) and you can too. Sign the pledge here: they need 400 more signatures to get the ball rolling!

How should managers and staff plan for an executive transition at their nonprofit? How would you define capacity building? What is ongoing learning for an organization?

Do you know the answers to these common nonprofit questions?  Third Sector New England wants to be sure you can find the answers, to those three questions and many more, in a way that's engaging than searching and reading.  How?

Third Sector New England's Video FAQ

Net Tuesdays are free monthly gatherings for social changemakers and web innovators to network, socialize and share ideas about how nonprofits and social benefit organizations can use the social web for social change. Net Tuesdays are an initiative of NetSquared, a Project of TechSoup.

January's Event

If you're looking for a non-profit job there's no lack of websites to help you find one. The big three non-profit websites all share common features: they let you search for jobs, volunteering opportunities and resources, all in one place.

Idealist is the American site of choice.

Charity Village is good for Canadian and international non-profit jobs.

And many Europeans use the EU family of websites for checking out international non-profit jobs - a lot of them look more or less like this one.

Edit [January 8, 2009] - As of right now, according to Jeff (the commenter below), the suggestion that Pages do not, infact, inform about the News Feed (just the Live Feed), is not true. 

What has your experience been? 

...or, more importantly, what the meaning of engagement here is, as well as its CONTEXT.  We were looking over the posts since we began the engagement campaign and realized a few items need clarification.

First off, when we use the word engagement here, we're talking about community building through collaboration.  N2 just wants to open up conversation with its users through the blog in order to learn from you what type of content is of best value to you for your operations.  And on top of that, we want to encourage you to engage one another.

Happy New Year, everyone!  We all know what this time of year means for blogs around the world: resolutions and predictions.  Why not share those predictions with the NetSquared community?

Topic:

This month, your Net2 Think Tank topic asks, “What do you think will be the big changes, new technologies, hot applications, or successful campaigns of 2009?”  If you want to read some thoughts before you get going, check out these posts as starting points:

The Vodafone Americas Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of its Wireless Innovation Project, a new competition that seeks to identify and fund the best innovations using wireless related technology to address critical social issues around the world.

Congratulations to the top three finalists in the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge! There were 115 projects submitted, and the community narrowed the list down to just 15 in December. The USAID judging panel has reviewed the featured projects and announced the top 3!

USAID Challenge Finalists:

These varied social media suggestions make up the third part of my on-going case study of and strategy suggestions for the United Church of Christ's social media strategy, it's attempt to resonance with young people (Millennials in particular), and its potentially forward-moving direction.