Flickr photo from sabellachan

The NpTech Tag Stream brought in a number of photos, videos, and podcasts and yes, lots of blog posts, including some live blogging from conferences.   Halloween is coming up next week so this post about what geeks give out for Halloween is timely (example: orange index card imprinted with URL of your Halloween video on YouTube.)   Finally, the word "micro" kept popping up in very seemingly unconnected ways.

Micro-what?

An excellent new resource on the topic of  micro-philthanthropy from Peter Deitz who has published First-of-its-kind, a web site that promotes small-scale giving and research and filled with useful comparisons of tools, case studies, and other resources.    The Somewhat Frank blog gives us a list of other micro ways groups can contribute their time or moral support.

If you don't know an API from a microwave, go over to the NTEN blog and listen to the podcast and summary of responses from nonprofits and vendors.  There's been a lot of blog buzz like this about it in the nptech space.

The Bamboo Project has a post on Gaming in Education that describes a video game on micro-economics called Econ201.  

At the Technology and the Arts Conference Blog points to a podcast of the podcasting panel where microphones were discussed.

And, finally,everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about microformats.

Social Media and Nonprofits Roundup

Using Social Networking to Stop Genocide by Ivan Boothe was published on ideaware and it is an excellent case study of how a nonprofit can harness the power of social networking tools.   If your organization is thinking of using these tools in the context of a campaign,   I'd also recommend understanding the impact of information or relationships on your brain -- there is a trio of articles from the UK viewpoint that share some advice, research, and case studies (here, here, and here).   Also, don't forget about pilots and testing such as what is happening over here.

Facebook as a Political Organizing Tool summarizes what Kira Marchenese at Environmental Defense has learned about facebook.

Photos + Walking = Photowalks David Wilcox describes how to combine analog and digital social experiences  of taking photos together as a group.  A variation of this, "flickrwalks" was recently mentioned on the Nonprofits and Flickr Affinity group as a possibility for the NTC conference in DC.

More examples are popping up of nonprofits using flickr and YouTube, including several video and photo contests.   Two flickr contests - one from the Nature Conservancy and March of Dimes.  In the video medium, Fight Hunger launched a contest.

A few good posts on blogging. How To Save the World Blog tells us why blogs are still not happening (not enough linking to other blogs or LinkTribution)   Ruby Sinreich of Lotusmedia 2.0 shares a recent article about blogging versus journalism.   Echoditto offers ten top tips for engaging constituents on blogs.

Cogdog Blog has an excellent post "Small Presentations Loosely Joined" that documents how he collaborately built a series of presentations on using several free web2.0 tools for educators.  The tools are YouTube, Flickr. Tagging, SlideShare, and Gimpy.  The wiki is filled with excellent examples and resources and while geared mostly for educators, still very useful for nonprofits. 

Some great resources on wikis at the K12online conference.  Will help you prepare for the upcoming TechSoup Wikis and Nonprofits Online Event.

Michael Stein (East Coast) points to an interesting article on programmers and productivity called "How does a programmer spend his time?"   And, if time is spent on marketing, there an interesting post called "Geek Marketing 101" on how technologists can do better marketing.  My favoriate point is:  Marketing is a conversation and most people don't speak geek.

New Blogs in the Nonprofit Blogosphere

The Guru Handbook,  Tactical Philanthropy, and Donor Insite (and don't miss his Marvin Gaye and Fundraising post)

Live Blogging from Nonprofit Conferences

Where Most Needed writes up what he learned at the Nonprofit Congress last week

Jon Stahl captured an excellent set of flickr photos from the Plone Conference 2006.  (Also check out the tagging instructions for conference participants and their Second Life experience.)

A video from the Technology and the Arts Conference was found in the YouTube nptech group and discussed here

Sadly Noted

Katrin Verclas posted on the NTEN blog the passing of dear colleague Miriam Engelberg.   Emily's World also points to additional mentions in the nonprofit blogosphere.