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This is a slideshow I created for the Annual NC Campus Compact Student Conference as an Americorps*VISA where I presented on technology tools to enable changemakers to organize and manage things.
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What is all this technology for?
..and how does it affect me?
Topics• Weblogs (blogs) and Wiki’s
• Podcasting
• Syndication
• Applications
• Google Tools
• Project Management
Blog?...that sounds funny.A blog is a special kind of website.
• Authentic in the first person• Community conversations• Content is very structured
– Dated (newest first)– Archived older files
• you can subscribe to people’s blogs like a newspaper or magazine
Personal Blog http://calweb.blogspot.com
Citizen Journalismhttp://www.audioactivism.org
Community Dialoguehttp://www.orangepolitics.org
Also a Wiki
What can you do with a blog?• Write about your latest revelation
• Share ideas with people from around the world
• Report news on certain issues• Organize people around goals and
rally support, exchange ideas• Use as platform for holding
podcasts and pictures for all to see
Syndication/Aggregators• RSS stand for Real Simple
Syndication– An XML file format standard for
subscribing to blogs
• Aggregators– Bloglines (online)– Google Reader (online)– BottomFeeder– Syndirella– And many, many more!
Special Thanks• Brian Russell of Audio Activism (http://www.audioactivism.org)• Ruby Sinreich of Lotus Media (http://www.lotusmedia.org)• North Carolina Campus Compact (http://www.elon.edu/nccc)• NCCU’s Academic Community Service Learning Program
(http://www.nccu.edu/commserv)
References:Russell, Brian, Sinreich, Ruby; “What’s all this blog stuff? And Why should I
care?” RTPnet Conference on Nonprofit Technology, May 2005, Chapel Hill, NC (online:http://www.audioactivism.org/images/BrianRuby-RTPnetConf05.pdf)
Sol.Net (http://calweb.blogspot.com)AudioActivism (http://www.audioactivism.org)Orange Politics (http://www.orangepolitics.org)Pew Internet & The American Life Project (http://www.pewinternet.org)Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org)Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)Google (http://www.google.com)TypePad (http://www.typepad.com)
Interactive PortionUsing google’s tools and servicesUsing Basecamp for project
management