These are some links I wanted to share from April 15th. Find me on Delicious for more!

• N2Y4 Mobile Challenge: 15 Featured Projects Announced | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Last week, the NetSquared Community voted on the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge to determine the 15 Featured Projects who will be invited to compete for $50K in cash-prizes and additinoal in-kind resources at this year's N2Y4 Conference. Check out the 15 Featured Projects and how you can be part of the N2Y4 Conference.
• Change the Web Challenge: Finalists Announced – I'm really excited about the 24 Finalists in the Change the Web Challenge – this Challenge called for new applications that use Social Actions' API which aggregates and surfaces all kinds of actionable opportunities from around the web. Check them out!
• Vodafone Americas Foundation Announces Wireless Innovation Project Winners – "The Vodafone Americas Foundation announced the winners of its Wireless Innovation Project, a new initiative that identifies and funds unique innovations using wireless related technology offering the best potential to address critical social issues around the world. The three winning innovations will share in prizes totaling up to $700,000 USD to support their next phase of advancement and implementation."
• Does social media help you find a job? – Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) of Maastricht University are conducting a survey: "We are investigating the effects of online social network memberships on your daily life. In particular, we are interested in the role of social network sites and receiving information about job openings."
• DoGooderTV Contest 2009 – Vote for your favorite Nonprofit videos – DoGooderTV's 2nd Nonprofit Video Awards have seen almost 400 submissions from 175 organizations and causes! The winners will be announced at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference on April 25 in San Francisco.

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

• PHILANTHROPY 2173: Mapping the social economy – Great blog post on using design for philanthropy. If you like visualizing inforamation and maps, check it out.
• OpenSecrets | Data – "Want to dive deep into the data of OpenSecrets.org and the Center for Responsive Politics? You've come to the right place. This is the entry point for CRP's vast archive of money-in-politics data, downloadable for non-commercial use. Map it, mash it up and otherwise make use of this unparalleled online resource. (Just please credit CRP for the data.)"
• The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism | DigiActive.org – "Following the recent protests in Moldova, the value of Twitter as a tool for digital activism is more prominent than ever. Yet in addition to bringing greater awareness to that tool, the hype surrounding Moldova revealed misunderstanding of the value of of Twitter for activism and, even though the realists responded strongly, there was not a stand-alone resource which clearly defined how Twitter could be used by activists."
• Penguin Day Agenda – pd.aspirationtech.org – Are you heading to the NTC this month? Will you be in San Francisco on April 25th? Why not check out Penguin Day! "At local Penguin Days non-profit organizations explore the range of issues and options involved using Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS)."
• SKOLL 09: Social entrepreneurs will emerge from credit crisis as leaders, predicts Jeff Skoll – In Jeff Skoll's closing remarks at the recent Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford, he compared the current condition of social innovators and the economic crisis with Darwin and the discovery of the double-helix DNA. Intrigued? Check it out.

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These are some links I wanted to share from April 3rd. Find me on Delicious for more!

• Love & Devices | BlogHer – Susan Mernit has a wonderful piece on BlogHer about her "connection" (not addiction) to technology. As she says, "If you are dating me, you ARE dating my devices." It's a great read.
• N2Y4 Conference Volunteers | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Looking for a way to come to the N2Y4 Conference? It'll bring together the 14 Mobile Challenge Project teams selected in a community vote next week, along with funders, innovators, developers, nonprofits and more. Here are the volunteer opportunities (which get you a free ticket!).
• 2009 NTC Orientation Call | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – Are you heading the 09NTC this year? Join this free webinar to get the low down on getting the most out of the event. There are a series of these free webinars, so even if this date doesn't work for you, there probably is one that does!
• » Blog Archive » We Are One Central Texas – "Central Texas nonprofits joined forces today to launch “We Are One,” a campaign focused on increasing involvement and driving stronger support for local organizations and their many missions. The We Are One initiative demonstrates a new level of collaboration as twelve of Austin’s largest nonprofits come together to speak as one voice and address important needs across the region as the economy continues to decline."
• It’s Your Content — Take Control of It! | NTEN: The Nonprofit … – "The key to a successful integrated marketing plan is to take control of your content. This requires that you actually put someone IN control — not merely a person to create and edit content, but one who can and will manage it, watch it, and cultivate it." – Michael Weiss, imagistic

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These are some links I wanted to share from March 18th. Find me on Delicious for more!

• About Us | Overview | UX Test Kitchen – "The UX Test Kitchen is a nonprofit interactive agency providing free website and media development to other nonprofits. Our staff comes from various companies – such as Razorfish, Time Inc., Kern+Lead, The Associated Press, and Harvard – in a collaborative effort to bring an agency-level presence to nonprofits."
• MAKE: Blog: Tweet-a-watt – our entry for the Core77 & Greener Gadgets design competition – "Using "off-the-shelf hardware", we have modified a Kill-a-Watt(TM) power meter to "tweet" (publish wirelessly) the daily KWH consumed to the user's Twitter account (Cumulative Killowatt-hours). We are releasing this project as an "Open source hardware" project – in other words, anyone can make these, modify them and make a commercial product from the ideas and methods."
• CHARITY SMACKDOWN:: Celebrities Compete, Charities Win www.charitysmackdown.com – Check out this interesting social fundraising campaign: "Each of the Smackdown Teams have from March 16th to March 26th to raise as much money as possible for the causes listed below."
• The Razoo March Goodness Contest – $16,500 in Grants to Non-profits and Prizes for Fundraisers – Razoo.com is currently running a Fundraising Contest, called March Madness, where non-profits stand to win $16,000.00 in cash for their organizations! Check it out!
• IdealistNews – New partnership with Idealist.org and Reddit has created the IdealistNews site where you can see some of the hot news items in the nonprofit sector.

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These are some links I wanted to share from March 3rd. Find me on Delicious for more!

• Facebook | we20 – the best reason to get your friends together this year – Do you know about the we20 project? A great example of organizing on the social web. "we20 meetings will create people plans, policy plans, business plans and other plans on local, national and global issues. The recession is focusing minds. What change do you want to create? Give your meeting a title and agenda or go with the flow. We're excited about what we can do! Members of we20.org will be awarded 20 votes to place on their favorite plans. Once we20 meets critical mass (and we sort our lives out), we will help you to implement your plans using web applications and partnerships." Check out the Facebook Group for more information.
• Nominations open for 2009 Social Innovation Fellowships | The Pop!Tech Blog | Accelerating the Positive Impact of Worldchanging People and Ideas – "PopTech has opened nominations for the 2009 Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellows program. The program helps accelerate the impact of visionary change agents who are incubating transformative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. Participants, who are selected from around the world and many different fields, gain access to world-class thought leaders and a 21st century toolkit – including the latest tools and thinking in emerging technology, leadership, communications, branding, funding, design and scalability."
• Event Registration (EVENT: 134093) – Are you can educator or work in a nonprofit that focuses on K-12 education? Here's a free webinar from Education Week on March 10 that focuses on Obama's stimulus plan and it's impact on the K-12 budget and more. Check it out!
• Pew Internet: Twitter and status updating – Report from Pew on the use of Twitter and similar services from earlier this month: "Nearly one in five (19%) online adults ages 18 and 24 have ever used Twitter and its ilk, as have 20% of online adults 25 to 34."
• Coup d’Etat on Twitter | Blog | design mind – Great example of the real-time and collaborative aspects of Twitter. "We’ll see more of this "instant" rewriting and reliving of history. Twitter is perfectly suited to translate historical narratives into the realm of social real-time presence."

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These are my links for January 16th through February 6th:

• How Twitter is Being Used By Companies | Mobile Technology in TAFE – Great post from Sue Waters about how different companies are using Twitter. Interesting to compare different styles and approaches.
• How to Use the New FriendFeed Search for Social Media Intelligence – ReadWriteWeb – Have you tried using FriendFeed? Well, they launched a new search tool today that could help you "discover particularly interesting conversations or people in your networks? Want to pick out just the noisiest conversations online about your brand? Want to find some really crazy stuff that's only discoverable through FriendFeed?"
• Google Cheat Sheet (Version 1.06) – "This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas."
• Join in: Transitions Online bridgecamp, Riga 5th & 6th February – This is a great opportunity to join Dan McQuillan in Riga to help the local community with social media projects. Check it out!
• A Crash Course in Comments – Great ideas about commenting on blogs from Chris Brogan: "If comments matter to you, read on. Here are some thoughts to help improve your back and forth."
• Social Media Not To Go Mainstream in Business in 2009 – Download this ebook about marketing and social media, "Marketing in 2009: 12 marketing professionals reveal their execution imperatives"

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