It might take me more than 10 minutes

by Hamed Saber
NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!:
[Via Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media]

Beth’s Blog again has some very useful information. These are things that anyone examining Web 2.0 should investigate. She began her mashup by utilizing:

Stephen Downes points to Lisa Neal’s “Ten Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes To Be A More Successful E-Learning Professional.”   He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional.   So, I’m remixed this memo into Ten Web2.0 Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be A Better Nonprofit Professional

Then she asked her commentors on the blog to suggest some. And they did.

1.  Set up a twitter account.  Go to the nonprofit twitter pack find and follow ten people who may learn something from.  Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections.  (Lisa Neal)2.  Set up Google Alerts to follow what’s being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what’s being said, join the conversation and build your community. (Deborah Zanke) (Jason Shim)

3.  Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your “subject matter area” and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. (Gregory Heller) (Sarah Marchetti) (Amy Sample Ward)

4.  Create an OPML of blogs your colleagues on staff might be interested in reading and import it into a reader for them, a starter pack. Or use nonprofit.alltop.com (Sue Waters)   (Allan Benamer)

5. Truly embrace social networking by encouraging your staff, your volunteers, your donors and your Board to join Facebook or Myspace and teach(!) them how to promote your cause. For many in the boomer
bracket, this is all new…but so important to integrate into traditional marketing and fundraising efforts. (Jane Arsenault and Anne Yurasek)

6.  Goto animoto.com and create a :30 video using photos of people, logos, and text related to your cause.  Post that video on your website, any major sharing sites, and social networks — then encourage people to share the videos far and wide!!  (Tyler Willis)

7. Convince your team members to set up individual bookmarking accounts, agree on a unique tag and start building a bookmarking collection for your organization.  Don’t forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us application in your Facebook account. Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! (Johannes)

8. Want to know buzz? Use tools like Technorati, Bloglines, and Forum Tracker to monitor what people are
saying about your organization as well as to find new marketing leads to contact with your messages and stories of hope. (Jonathon Coleman)

9. Want inspiration? Search YouTube and Flickr for descriptive keywords that are part of your mission statement to see what your target audiences might find compelling and inspirational. (Jonathon Coleman)

10. Want to learn from the best of the best?  Visit SlideShare and read through great presentations on just about any topic. (Jonathon Coleman)

Bonus Tip
11.  Use new media before pitching new media sources (CarrieBethH)

She then ends with a request for others who subscribe to her blog:

Okay folks, can we run this up to 100 tips that you can do in ten minutes using Web 2.0 to be a better nonprofit professional?  Here’s how you can help:

-If you blog, ask your readers to contribute
-Leave a tip in the comments
-Twitter it at @kanter

As has been mentioned before, many non-profits have boomers on board and we generally have not been as open in embracing Web 2.0 technologies. This is something I am doing my best to educate. We will come around.

Technorati Tags: Knowledge Creation, Web 2.0, Social media

Another World

by Fábio Pinheiro

World 2.0:
[Via Gurteen Knowledge-Log]
David Gurteen ruminates on just where Web 2.0, Science 2.0, education 2.0, etc will take us.

But the “2.0 meme” is starting to affect everything. In a talk in Kuala Lumpur I was asked how you implement Enterprise 2.0 and I was talking about some of the barriers when someone spoke up and said “We will never have Enterprise 2.0 until we have Managers 2.0!” In other words it was managers and their out-dated mind sets that was a major barrier to change,And a few days later while giving another talk at the National Library in Singapore I found us talking about Libraries 2.0 and Learning 2.0. It then hit me that “2.0” thinking was permeating everything. People were also taking about Business 2.0 and Education 2.0.

These changes mean that the way we interact with one another is changing. Diversity of viewpoint requires us to realize that there are many ways to do something and will help us devise the best route. It will completely alter the way people think.

More than anything we need “Mindset 2.0″ or “Thinking 2.0″ - new ways of looking at and thinking about the world and seeing the opportunities to work in new innovative ways that these new technologies allow.

Here is a brief comparison of the two worlds. This thinking can be applied in business, in education and learning, to adults and to children and to government and to society. Its not just about technology!

World 1.0	World 2.0
Knowledge sharing and learning is imposed additional work	Knowledge sharing and social learning is a welcome natural part of people’s everyday work
Work takes places behind closed doors	Work takes place transparently where everyone can see it
IT Tools are imposed on people	People select the tools that work best for them
People are controlled out of fear they will do wrong	People are given freedom in return for accepting responsibility
Information is centralized, protected and controlled	Information is distributed freely and uncontrolled
Publishing is centrally controlled	Anyone can publish what they want
Context is stripped from information	Context is retained in the form of stories
People think quietly alone	People think out loud together
People tend to write in the third person, in a professional voice	People write in the first person in their own voice
People especially those in authority are closed to new ideas and new ways of working	Everyone is open to new ideas
Information is pushed to people whether they have asked for it or not	People decide the information they need and subscribe to it
The world is seen through a Newtonian cause and effect model	The world is recognized to be complex and that different approaches are needed

Those of us transitioning between these World 1.0 and World 2.0 realize just what a change it is. We can see the effects it has on the world. Those that follow us will not really understand because they will never have lived World 1.0. They will never be able to understand why we felt that knowledge was only power when it was hidden.

Technorati Tags: Knowledge Creation, Social media

Moving In

I am transitioning over to this blog from my old one, A Man With A PhD, a Userland Radio Blog. I have been using that one publicly since 2002 but I have used Radio, and before that Frontier, since the late 90s.

It is hard to move out but time has moved on. What Radio could accomplish in 2002 (news aggregator, blogging tool, hosting) can now be done by separate components, each having more depth that Radio. Radio was the boom box. I’m now moving on to stereo components. Radio was able to do a lot but it has not kept up with the rapidly changing environment. It still was a little to hands-on and required more tinkering than I really liked.

I’ll probably be cross-posting at both for a little while.

Technorati Tags: Social media, Web 2.0

Chimps are astute observers

by belgianchocolate

Who’s bad? Chimps figure it out by observation:
[Via EurekAlert! - Biology]

Chimpanzees make judgments about the actions and dispositions of strangers by observing others’ behavior and interactions in different situations. Specifically, chimpanzees show an ability to recognize behavioral traits and make assumptions about the presence or absence of these traits in strangers in similar situations thereafter. These findings, by Dr. Francys Subiaul — from the George Washington University in Washington DC — and his team, have just been published online in Animal Cognition, a Springer journal.
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These researchers were able demonstrate that chimps could determine whether another human or another chimp was generous or selfish simply by watching them. These chimps could, in a similar fashion to humans, determine another’s reputation. When then given the choice of a generous or a selfish individual to request food from, the chimps chose the generous one. They aren’t stupid!