When reading the invite from Britt for this Net2ThinkTank, I was reminded of a recent comment that I made on Beth's Blog about Twitter. Many people don't realize that Twitter isn't just for broadcasting little bits of information, it's also great for finding new stuff too. A nonprofit organization may not be ready to Twitter their latest news and events, but they can still use Twitter to find individuals who have an interest in their own cause or mission. My favorite Twitter search tool is Terraminds Twitter Search because it's responsive and allows you to subscribe to search results with RSS.

Robin Good is an independent online publisher who works out of Rome, Italy. He is the editor of MasterNewMedia.org (on new media generally) MasterViews.com (visual presentation for international audiences) and Kolabora.com (online collaboration). He also publishes the Communication Agents Journal and is the producer-director behind the first open-source movie about blogs, TheWeblogProject.com.

Robin has worked for the UN, World Bank, FAO, CGIAR and the Arab Planning Institute in developing complex online information systems and multi/language web sites. His work today focuses on empowering individuals to sustain themselves ethically through creative use of new media.

nonprofit    charity    philanthropy    donate   

Michael Grubb is the Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer at LookSmart.  He became an expert in scalability of web services after studying philosophy at Duke University and receiving a J.D. from the University of North Carolina. 

LookSmart's service Furl.net is a popular social bookmarking/tagging tool amongst librarians, researchers, educators and others. The company also offers 181 topic-specific vertical search sites.

Lisa Williams is a prolific multi-media content creator, a key player in the emerging OPML community and the founder of H2otown, a thriving community blog covering news and events in Watertown, Massachusetts.

In the following interview Lisa and I talked about how she set up a successful community blog, her cutting edge research methods and her hope to make the H2otown site even more inclusive of area residents.

Gary Price is the editor of ResourceShelf.com, the News Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, a contributer to Docuticker.com and a librarian. 

Price graciously spent a long time with me on Instant Messaging doing the interview that follows.  You can click on any of the summary points below to skip to that part of the interview, then click your browser’s “back” button to return to the top, or you can read the whole story straight through.  All off-site links will open in a new window, so you can check them out without leaving the interview.

Yay!  Aaron Pettigrew and I have figured out a work-around to get these blogs indexed, and thus findable, by the major blog search engines.  Last week I checked and was dismayed to discover that posts here were not appearing in Technorati, Google Blogsearch, Yahoo Blogsearch or several other key blog search engines.  For some reason the blogging software we are using wasn't "pinging" the search engines to let them know when we had new content posted.    No one knew why this wasn't happening.  It was a problem.