Paul Resnick's Occasional MusingsPaul Resnick's Occasional Musings - LiveJournal.comNetSquared Human Rights Session- May 30, 2006 Patrick Ball, BenetechSmall organizations on the ground don't want to share their data-- it's their ticket of entry to policy discussions. They do need crypto and communication so they can get their data to a secure place even if their laptops are impounded.Make it serve the local need of the person entering the data, and by the way have it do the stuff that's good for the organization and the long haul.Has been doing statistical analysis to estimate prevalence of Human Rights violations, based.http://presnick.livejournal.com/16613.html NetSquared: state of Open Source Software for Nonprofits- May 30, 2006 Some audience questions before the start of the session: Is Open Source relevant Or are open APIs all that matters Are there underlying values for NPOs choosing tech, or is it just a question of picking what works best David Geilhufe's arguments for open source for the non-profit sector: avoid duplication of effort; encourage innovation.OpenBRR (open business readiness rating)-- more appropriate criteria for making decisions on open source than if you use the usual criteria that have been...http://presnick.livejournal.com/16338.html NetSquared, CitizenJournalism session- May 30, 2006 Dan Gillmor. Citizen Journalism is becoming the norm. Eyewitness reports from disasters are just the beginning. Digg is the darling example now because it has ratings of news stories, though he also mentions Slashdot for rating the commentary. (Look for the new interface reading comments on Slashdot, coming soon, that I've been working on with students Youn-ah Kang and Nathan Oostendorp!)The OhmyNews story. Korea. Extremely successful; has become one of the most influential publications in...http://presnick.livejournal.com/16049.html Some notes from NetSquared, Session 1- May 30, 2006 At NetSquared Howard Rheingold: "Still need a residue of hierarchy, but it can be a pretty small one" Paul Saffo: "The power of the whisper" My summary of the morning: when the analysis gets complicated, just remember, "It's the participation, stupid." From the floor: "a just society means 'not just my society' "http://presnick.livejournal.com/15776.html On to Calaveras for WineCamp- May 30, 2006 At the dinner after Online Community Camp, Greg Beuthin from ComputMentor told me about WineCamp, where geeks and non-profits were camping out for the weekend. Some of the people from CivicSpace were going to be there, and a major goal of my trip to NetSquared (starting Tuesday, today) was to connect with them. So off I went on Friday afternoon, after a day talking about my research at Yahoo!Unlike the Online Community Camp, which had borrowed some un-conference ideas, this was the real deal....http://presnick.livejournal.com/15519.html Online Community Camp- May 25, 2006 I'm at an Online Community Camp. "Camp" is the new word for conferences that are only loosely organized-- people propose topics at the beginning of the day and people go to whatever seems interesting.Who's here:VendorsConsultantsCommunity managers, web producers at companies, non-profits, and media outfitsone student from Stanford, and me, reprenting academia----------------Topics they're interested in:how to change platforms; how to select platformsHow to quantify ROI, to justify and get...http://presnick.livejournal.com/15120.html |