Digital Arts Service Corps - blogs

Non-profit Technology Resources

Mike Moore — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:36:28 +0000

These might help when you are looking for answers to common non-profit and technology issues. Sign up for newsletters or just browse when you have a question:

Websites

Blogs

Beth Kanter: One of the most prodigious nonprofit technologists around.
Entry Level Living: The Personal and Professional Insights of a Struggling College Grad
Many-to-Many: A group weblog on social software
Media Shift: tracks the way the Internet and technology are reshaping the mediasphere
Allison Fine: the ways that digital tools, particularly social media, are enhancing our connectedness to one another and our ability and willingness to work for the collective social good
Apophenia: how American youth engage in networked publics like MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Xanga, etc.
Mind Mob: emerging trends in science, collaboration, the online world and elsewhere.

Skills, tools, & direct resources

Presentation Zen: Information on creating effective presentations
Copyblogger: How to blog effectively
Six Steps to Adopting Open-Source Software at Your Org (Aug 2006)
How To: Put Technology to Use (May 2008)
"The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy -- and Their Open Source Alternatives"
Social Source Commons: http://socialsourcecommons.org/
Free Software Foundation: http://directory.fsf.org/
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/
Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com

Long time, no blog

Andrea Collopy — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:27:00 +0000

I have been reluctant to blog not only because it is a bit foreign to me and I don't know what other people want to hear about me, or if they even care, but mostly because it is available to the public. I would like to share many of my experiences with my fellow VISTAs; however, I am uncomfortable sharing my life and experiences with everyone on the Internet. I also feel like I am restricted to blogging about only the positive things that occur at my organization, what about the not-so-positive ones, the things that aren't going quite so perfectly? Don't get me wrong, I love my org, and know far too well that everything does not always go as planned, and the wonderful experiences I have had thus far completely outweight the less-wonderful ones, but I would like to share those too, and more importantly the lessons that I have learned from them in hopes that another VISTA may benefit. Imagine though, if someone from my organization were to read that blog, I fear that that could create some uncomforatble situations for me.

I am sure that other VISTAs are experiencing similiar situations, or at least ones you feel you can't blog about. I think that we could benefit from having an outlet to vent our frustrations, and share creative ideas and solutions. This forum would greatly benefit by having the option of a private blog section for VISTAs only.

I'm not sure if I am alone in this and would appreciate your feedback or support.

CTC VISTAs Can Share! - Digital Media Toolkit

danielle martin — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:57:24 +0000

[From the blog of Danielle Martin, 10/13/2006]

Morgan Sully, developed an open DIY Digital Media Toolkit/CD-ROM, with a simple HTML start page and links to resources and free software (usually distributed on CD) to bring to sessions he did in his work with The San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Community Center.

He put it up on his blog and posted it to the Digital Media discussion list (and Nettrice posted it to the old portal), and opened it up for folks to take and customize for their own work.

In response, Roxanne Johnson, built upon it and compiled her own toolkit to train her AmeriCorps volunteers and youth at the Twin Cities C-CAN/CTEP Project in MN.

Read more about Danielle's work as is a second year VISTA and VISTA Leader at the CTC VISTA Project and project manager and trainer at massIMPACT at her blog.

My visit to VISTA head quarters- 10/4/2006

Kamala Kalluri — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:39:05 +0000

This is our first meeting after VISTA leadership change. We welcome our new leaders Daniele and Ben. We look farword to an enjoyable time, and wish for our efforts be fruitful ahead as VISTAs under our new leadership.

This is my first attempt at learning to attach tags to the information I enter into blogs with the help of Daniele's demonstration.