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

As some of you know, we have a Net2 News Aggregator on the site that you can browse for Net2-related stories.

Here are links to some recently tagged sites and stories:

Winecamp France.  Oui Oui!  September 22-24, 2006 regular barcampers + nonprofit web activists will meet up in Burgundy to discuss and create ways that nonprofits can use the social web for social change.

In Google Answers, the question is asked:
What is the general percentage of nonprofit organizations with 10 or more employees that invest in new enterprise or CRM software on a yearly basis?  The answerer provided lots of statistics, but few were more recent than 2003.  Anyone have more recent stats to share?

Confessions of a Nonprofit IT Director blog talks about "Nonprofit 2.0" in his organization:

At our "Making it Happen" table, we discussed how we could use tagging to help make social change, not just organize our own work.  We decided that we should come up with a few tags for the nonprofit sector and start getting them out there by recruiting "Tagvocates" who vow to: 

1. Use the tags all over the place
2. Recruit other tagvocates for their tag(s)

The plan is to get a set of tags out there, the aggregate the content (maybe with Suprglu?), and then foster a discussion about how we can use the content that we're tagging for social change.  For example - can a legal services organization use a set of tags to help aggregate content about Seattle area housing for their clients and agreggate it on their site?  Can an enviro group use a tag to aggregate info about a local developer to expose ant-environmental practices?

Every Wednesday I post a Call to Action on our Net2Builders group and to the Net2 blog so check it out, and answer the call!

We would like to do some video interviews with Bay Area nonprofits who are using blogs, podcasts, vlogs, RSS feeds, social networking, social bookmarking, aggregation and/or wikis in their work.

If you know of nonprofits using these tools, would you either send me the URL, and if you know it, the contact info. for someone who works there, OR tag it "net2", and I'll catch it in the Net2 news aggregator.