Author: Amy Sample Ward

Amy Sample Ward is trainer, author, and community organizer focused on the intersections of technology and social change. Amy is also the CEO of NTEN, a nonprofit that supports organizations fulfilling their missions through the skillful and racially equitable use of technology.

Great reads from around the web on May 14th

These are some links I wanted to share from May 14th. Find me on Delicious for more!

  • New ‘WSJ’ Conduct Rules Target Twitter, Facebook – The Wall Street Journal circulated a newly compiled list of "professional conduct" covering social media, social networking, and so on. Take a look at their entire list!
  • 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media – Max Gladwell has a guest post at Mashable: "Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. And they’ll take for granted that they are connected and interconnected with hundreds of millions of people at any given moment."
  • Techcafeteria Blog » The ROI on Flexibility – Peter Campbell has a great blog post addressing the common reality inside foundations and nonprofit organizations when it comes to IT management: total lockdown. Does limiting the internet and computing options of your organization's staff actually limit what they could be doing to deliver on your mission?
  • Traveling Geeks – The Traveling Geeks are an informal group of technology influencers and bloggers rooted chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area who are traveling to London and Cambridge in July 2009 as part of Innovation UK. Follow them at tg2009.com!
  • http://www.lightscamerahelp.com/ – "Lights. Camera. Help., the premiere film festival exclusively for nonprofit and grassroots organizations, officially opened its submission process last Thursday." The submission deadline is June 30th so get your video in today!

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Great reads from around the web on May 6th

These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. Find me on Delicious for more!

  • Google Open Source Blog: Student Applications Open for 2009 OpenUsability Season of Usability – "Inspired by Google Summer of Code™, the OpenUsability Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development."
  • OpenMRS – OpenMRS – Such a great group doing great work. Check them out if you are interested in new technologies breaking down walls in the world of health. "OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. We've come together to specifically respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions."
  • The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals – Forrester "found that technologies trigger changes in consumer adoption, and brands will follow, resulting in five distinct waves…" You can check out the 5 eras of the social web along with recommendations for "brands" preparing for the future.
  • Who’s to Blame for Creating the Digital Ceiling? | Radical Tech | Fast Company – Allyson Kapin has a great article about women on the web on the Fast Company blog: "Pew studies show that women now outnumber men on the internet–including major social networks like Twitter and Facebook. However, many women in technology and social media still face a digital ceiling."
  • Nonprofit Social Network Survey | Common Knowledge – "Learn how commercial social networks and house social networks fit into your nonprofit's online ecosystem. Understand the importance of both community size and data ownership in your social network strategy." This report is from NTEN, Common Knowledge, and The Port.
  • UK and Europe developer camp and user meetup | CiviCRM Community Site – "The developer camp is aimed at those that want to learn more about CiviCRM from the people involved in it's development. If you are interested in improving your CiviCRM admin skills, learning more about developing with CiviCRM or helping improve the product in any other way, then this camp is for you."

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