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• 11 June 2008

  Crowdsourcing: How Business and Nonprofits Tap into the Wisdom of Crowds  

  “Welcome to the age of the crowd,” wrote Jeff Howe in The Rise of Crowdsourcing (2006). In coining the term "crowdsourcing," Howe pointed to the rise of the open-source software movement; to the success of user-created Wikipedia; and to profitable businesses like MySpace and eBay “that couldn’t exist without the contribution of users.” Nowadays, user-driven innovations and crowdsourced solutions are popping up faster than you can say "open API" and "online community"... Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:01 PM by Rebecca | 2 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, nptech, Web 2.0, online community, case studies, collaboration, open source, crowdsourcing

• 12 May 2008

  5pm offers Easy Online Project Management - with 50% discount for nonprofits 

  Project management software is a tough and competitive field. With so many excellent choices out there, it's hard to know what tools will work best for your organization's needs. Do you want web-based or desktop application? Which features will you really use? How long is the learning curve — and will everyone in your organization be willing and able to take on the challenge? For those who don't need the full muscle power of market-leaders like Basecamp and Wrike , the lighter-weight and user-friendly Read More... Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 5:30 AM by Rebecca | 15 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, nptech, Non-profit Communications, collaboration, event managment, project management

• 19 February 2008

  Social Annotation: the Next Generation of Social Bookmarking 

  We've talked before about the many benefits of social bookmarking (Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, and so on) for sharing the web pages you've discovered and for helping others to share your own site or blog. But when it comes to online research and collaboration, are the usual social bookmarking services really the best possible tool for organizing that flood of online information? If you've bookmarked the same website several times over, or misplaced an important bookmark among a hundred others Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:53 AM by Rebecca | 4 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, nptech, Social networking, collaboration