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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

kanter — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:08:47 -0400

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? (Digg it here). That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions.

NpTech Summary: Best (free) Sources To Get Social Media Audience Usage Research

kanter — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:55:52 -0400

Flickr Photo by Lynetter

NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants and Social Fundraising

kanter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:44:13 -0400

Photo by Mr. Clean1982

The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks.The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice.
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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

kanter — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:38:18 -0400

During the past few weeks, Twitter has been down or out due to stress. To learn more about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. When a service goes down, users will complain. And if happens a lot, they may move on. There was much speculation as to whether they mover to Jaiku (with its newly minted Google money), or Pownce, BrightKite, Tumblr, plurk or FriendFeed.

NpTech Tag Summary: 10 x 10 Ten NpTech Tagged Items About Social Media and Nonprofits That You Can Check Out in Ten Minutes

kanter — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:08:23 -0400

Want to listen on Twitter? Use Tweetscan and type in key words. Don't forget to add the search tool.

NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits, Digg and Dogs, Happy EarthDay, and a few other nptech tidbits

kanter — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:17:27 -0400

Danielle Brigida put together this excellent slide show on how to use tools like Digg and StumbleUpon (not humans) to drive traffic. Love the dogs!

Speaking of Digg and dogs .. watch Kevin Rose's dog do some tricks on QIK.

NpTech Tag Summary: More Chatter About Twitter and Organizational Use

kanter — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:19:18 -0400

See the full version here.

NpTech resource sharing and conversations are getting more and more distributed. This past week there was a lot of Twitter chatter in different nooks and crannies in NpTechosphere. Here's a brief summary:

Send in the Twitter Clouds

NpTech Tag Summary: Facebook Apps for Good and GTD

kanter — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:38:01 -0400

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent. It came back last month in a new format and aggregation process. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks.

NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!

kanter — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:58:34 -0400

Photo by SpacePotato

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent. It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. The summaries will be briefer, focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Inspiration may come from outside our silo and together we'll remix it ..

NpTech Tag Summary: Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tools

kanter — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:21:04 -0400

Marnie Webb's monthly Twitter usage tracked over the past year and half created with Tweetstats.