Additional Resources
Grantmaking 2.0: Using New Technology to Enhance Grantmaker Practices
http://www.geofunders.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=526&nodeID=1
TechSoup Article: Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 to Change the World
Extremely useful look at how to start using the new Internet tools immediately.
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page5669.cfm
Keeping Your Community Foundation Ahead of the Technology Curve: How the latest technology trends could help you serve your community better
Report produced by Blueprint and the Monitor Group describing how community foundations can use new technologies.
http://www.communityphilanthropy.org/downloads/future_matters_spring06.pdf
Soucial Source Commons
Social Source Commons is a place to share lists of software tools that you already use, gain knowledge and support, and discover new tools. It’s a place to meet people with similar needs and interests and answer the question: what tools do they use?
http://www.socialsourcecommons.org/
Net2: remixing the web for social change
Site dedicated to helping nonprofits use new online tools, aka Web 2.0
http://www.netsquared.org
TechSoup Forums: Emerging Technologies
Discussion among nonprofits about emerging new technologies
http://www.techsoup.org/fb/index.cfm?fuseaction=forums.showSingleForum&forum=2033&cid=117
Organizer’s Tool Crib
A participatory directory that allows organizers to share, review and rate online tools and resources.
http://toolcrib.ning.com/
Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
Beth Kanter has assembled an array of how-tos for using new technologies.
http://beth.typepad.com/
SocialEdge
A project of the Skoll Foundation, Social Edge has become a site where social entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals, philanthropists and other practitioners of the social sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources. It is an example of a foundation's effort to use the Internet innovatively, and includes some useful information resources related to technology.
http://www.socialedge.org/
ONE/Northwest: New tools and strategies for engaging people in protecting the environment
ONE/Northwest regularly publishes articles about online communication strategy for the Northwest environmental community and beyond. Very readable tips and how-tos.
http://www.onenw.org/toolkit
ConsultantCommons: Sharing Tools for Nonprofit Technology Support
ConsultantCommons.org provides an online collaboration space and community for non-profit technical assistance providers to collaboratively build and share knowledge.
http://www.consultantcommons.org/
TechSoup Learning Center
Information and how-tos about technology, written for nonprofit leaders.
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/index.cfm?cg=header&sg=howto
TechSoup Toolkits: Everything You Need to Know About Web 2.0
New technology tools described for nonprofit audience by TechSoup
http://www.techsoup.org/toolkits/web2/
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