http://www.netsquared.org/tags/nptechtag share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-roundup-grasshoppers-and-ants-and-social-fundraising <p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/241/535900507_a516f4f5a6_m.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrclean/535900507/">Photo by Mr. Clean1982</a> </p> <blockquote><p><em>The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with &quot;nptech&quot; 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&#39;m incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks.</em><em>The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice.</em><em>  </em></p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-roundup-grasshoppers-and-ants-and-social-fundraising">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-roundup-grasshoppers-and-ants-and-social-fundraising#comments nptechsummary nptechtag nptechtagsummary Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:44:13 -0400 kanter 18113 at http://www.netsquared.org http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-summary-social-networking-strateiges-and-nonprofits-getting-beyond-shiney-object-syndrome-and-getting-more-pr <p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/119550822_510fd07301_m.jpg" /><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixlfarmer/119550822/">Photo by PixelFarmer</a> - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog)</p> <blockquote><p><em>The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again.&nbsp; Conversations are getting<br /> more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use<br /> tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them.&nbsp; I'm moving beyond<br /> monitoring<br /> the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from<br /> micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. </em></p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-summary-social-networking-strateiges-and-nonprofits-getting-beyond-shiney-object-syndrome-and-getting-more-pr">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-summary-social-networking-strateiges-and-nonprofits-getting-beyond-shiney-object-syndrome-and-getting-more-pr#comments nptech nptechtag nptechtagsummary Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:09:56 -0400 kanter 16744 at http://www.netsquared.org http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-learnings-friendfeed-experiment <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2557632924_8da6e8d9bc_o.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>During the past few weeks, <a href="http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/05/28/the-truth-why-twitter-is-over-capacity/">Twitter has been down or out due to stress.</a> To <a href="http://staynalive.com/articles/2008/05/31/scoble-and-twitter-behind-the-scenes/">learn more</a> about Twitter scaling issues read this interview by Jesse Stay. When a service goes down, users will <a href="http://howtosplitanatom.com/columnists/and-now-the-backlash/">complain</a>. 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.</p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-learnings-friendfeed-experiment">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-learnings-friendfeed-experiment#comments nptechsummary nptechtag nptechtagsummary Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:38:18 -0400 kanter 14649 at http://www.netsquared.org http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-nptech-slide-decks-twitter-saves-children-and-visualizing-information-advocacy <p> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2079/2292416182_00b2cde951_o.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p> One of the above is the actual cover of &quot;<a href="http://www.tacticaltech.org/infodesign">Visualizing Information for Advocacy</a>&quot; - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective.<br /> <strong><br /> NpTech Conversations</p> <p> </strong>So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the <a href="/mashup">NetSquared Mashup Challenge</a>!</p> <p> Drew Bernard has a <a href="http://drewsshoes.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/64/">review</a> of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called &quot;<a href="http://www.tacticaltech.org/infodesign">Visualizing Information for Advocacy</a>&quot;<br /> <strong></p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-nptech-slide-decks-twitter-saves-children-and-visualizing-information-advocacy">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-nptech-slide-decks-twitter-saves-children-and-visualizing-information-advocacy#comments nptech nptechsummary nptechtag nptechtagsummary Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:30:46 -0500 kanter 7493 at http://www.netsquared.org http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-americas-giving-challenge-googlization-nonprofit-transparency-muck-twitter-and-desklickr <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2252/2118050339_092da4e753_m.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/2118050339/">The Googlization of Nonprofit Transparency<br /> </a><strong><br /> What&#39;s Hot in NpTech<br /> </strong></p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-americas-giving-challenge-googlization-nonprofit-transparency-muck-twitter-and-desklickr">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-americas-giving-challenge-googlization-nonprofit-transparency-muck-twitter-and-desklickr#comments nptech nptechtag nptechtagsummary Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:27:19 -0500 kanter 7287 at http://www.netsquared.org http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-change-org-launch-white-label-social-network-nonprofits-geektoys-give-geekbumps-and-blog-readability <p><img src="http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/img/high_school.jpg" alt="" /><br />What <a href="http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx">reading level</a> is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Remember, it&#39;s <a href="http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2007/11/blog_readabilit.html">not the level</a>, but whether it is a match to your audience.</p> <p><strong>Social Networking for Social Change</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-change-org-launch-white-label-social-network-nonprofits-geektoys-give-geekbumps-and-blog-readability">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-change-org-launch-white-label-social-network-nonprofits-geektoys-give-geekbumps-and-blog-readability#comments nptech nptechtag nptechtagsummary Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:16:50 -0500 kanter 7227 at http://www.netsquared.org http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-exphones-death-powerpoint-and-facebook-causes-how <p> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1252/999141078_cec9f6a8e0_m.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint/9">Slide</a> from a slideshare called &quot;<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint">Death by Powerpoint</a>&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-exphones-death-powerpoint-and-facebook-causes-how">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/kanter/nptech-tag-summary-exphones-death-powerpoint-and-facebook-causes-how#comments nptech nptechtag nptechtagsummary tagging Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:48:21 -0400 kanter 7009 at http://www.netsquared.org