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The 501c3Cast is a podcast for nonprofit professionals, volunteers, and do-gooders to share information and resources to help them do their jobs better.

From 8by1.com:8by1 is a wishlist for your world. 8by1 helps you evangelize your wishes for the world, and connects you with similar-minded people who also want these wishes to come true. The 8by1 community empowers even the casual people like you and me to make our world how we like it.

A podcast that frames all of its topics in terms of activism.

Interviews with individuals and organizations who are creating positive change--created by this Center's manager (:

Big Vision is a podcast of Britt Bravo's warm, engaging interviews with individuals and organizations that are creating positive change. Each one is about half an hour long.

Recordings of presentations from the Bioneers Conference: Visionary and Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth.

Link to a NetSquared post about an amazing wiki called Blogsafer.org. Focusing on areas where persecution of bloggers has been the worst, BlogSafer.org contains guides on how bloggers can avoid state persecution around the world.

Confeederation was a one-stop source for blog posts from candidates across Canada in the 2006 election campaign.

Congresspedia is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy and the Sunlight Foundation and is designed to shine more light on the workings of the U.S. Congress. Congresspedia is part of SourceWatch, a collaboratively-written, wiki-based website documenting the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda.

Using the free online social bookmarking tool, Del.icio.us, any user can mark a web page for the attention of the nonprofit technology community by usingthe tag "nptech."

An aggregation of blogs from around the world, featuring citizen journalists who cover a wide range of political and social issues. The project also includes regional directories, so that readers can easily find sources of information from areas that interest them, and "bridge blogs" that encourage cross-cultural understanding of issues that are covered by bloggers around the world.

H2otown is a community blog by and for the residents of Watertown, MA. H2otown uses the open source content management system Drupal, the video sharing tool YouTube and extensive search and RSS tools to create a thriving online gathering and news space.

A resource wiki set up to aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

A NetSquared case study about the Library Success wiki, a wiki that enables librarians and other knowledge management professionals to pool information about effective professional and organizational strategies.

Lightstalkers is a networking tool designed for mobile journalists, especially photographers.

www.malecare.com Provides support services and an online community to gay men with prostate cancer.

MatchingDonors.com main objective is to search the world to find potential live donors for people in need of organ transplants.

This is distributed philanthropy, using the internet to empower geographically dispersed individuals to provide others in need with small one-time gifts of financial assistance.

Interesting quote from their web site:

Only six percent of visitors retain information about an object from labels, but more than 30% remember what they hear about an object! -Marjorie Schwarzer," Art & Gadgetry." Museum News. July/Augus 2001.

The MoMA podcast has four programs: Special Exhibitions provides audio commentary for many special exhibitions on view at the Museum. Available in English only. Modern Voices offers commentaries by dozens of curators, artists, critics, and conservators who share their perspectives on select artworks in the Museum's collection. Available in English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, and Italian.

Video clip with folks from Geekcorps and VIA technologies.  Discusses the application of low power / solar power computing equipment in developing contexts.

Nonprofit Bloggers connect with each other through blog exchanges. Bloggers have to signup for each exchange, and then the blogger is given a nonprofit blog to write about in their blog.

Here's an example of how you can use tags with Upcoming.org: a list of every event tagged "NPTech", the tag for non-profit uses of technology. You can also find a news feed for this page here.

ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans - ONE by ONE - to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE Campaign is engaging Americans through a diverse coalition of faith-based and anti-poverty organizers to show the steps people can take, ONE by ONE, to fight global AIDS and poverty.

They use Gcast as their podcasting host.

Podcasts provide additional information about the museum's exhibits.

This toolkit helps users select the most cost-effective mix of ICT and energy systems for projects across sectors.  Contains sets of best practices, worksheets and case studies of implementation, including case studies of supporting solar powered computing infrastructure.

A resource wiki set up to aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita.

A great resource that introduces tagging, RSS and Social Bookmarking via two interesting case studies: the NPTech tagging project & telecentre.org.

SchoolNet Africa is an independent non-government organization which promotes education through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in African schools.

SFMOMA Artcasts is produced in collaboration with Antenna Audio. Each month, they offer artists', writers', curators', musicians', and visitors' responses to exhibitions and artworks on view at SFMOMA.

If you show your MP3 player loaded with the current SFMOMA Artcast at the Museum box office, you get $2 off admission.

SMASHcast is a podcast produced by youth in San Francisco's Summer Math & Science Honors Academy. The podcast covers issues of interest to young people regarding their aims to study math and science in higher education.

A bi-weekly podcast about the latest science at the Smithsonian.

The Freer and Sackler Galleries has three podcasts programs: The Freer Concert Series, The Storytelling Series and Curatorial Conversations.

SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. SourceWatch's primary focus is on documenting public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.

An excellent example of tagging tools put to good use in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

TakingITGlobal.org is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. 

The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a vision to bring a free encyclopedia to every single person on the planet. This includes people who currently do not have electricity, computers, internet, or even clean drinking water. All proceeds from donations, as with all proceeds from all fundraisers, are fully dedicated to that charitable purpose.

Weekly digest of NetSquared news & interviews.

Building on the themes in Britt Bravo's NetSquared post, Marshall Kirkpatrick outlines 10 Reasons ways that nonprofits can use blogging to their advantage.

This Indian Ocean Disaster Relief Portal lists humanitarian aid resources to help victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

Curators, conservators and researchers share some of their stories about objects in the Archives and the Paintings Gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Artists, curators and tour guides discuss work from the Walker collection.  The content is also available via cell phone by calling 612.374.8200.

A six part series to complement the museum's Women of Vision film festival.  It includes interviews with filmmakers and comments by Walker film curator/festival director Sheryl Mousley

Wikipedia is probably the most popular wiki in the world. It's an open-source encyclopedia, and it's amazing. Check it out!