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Write Up A Web2.0 Non-Profit!

I know you’re out there, you readers intrigued by new web tools and how they can be used for social change! Well my wonderful coworkers at Tech Soup’s Net 2 are looking for a hand or two in profiling some really exciting non-profit groups using tools like blogs, RSS, Drupal, etc. You’ve got half an hour to do a good deed!

According to volunteer coordinater Britt Bravo, “Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes. Just register on the Net Squared site, log in, go to the “Put Your Voice in the Mix” page, http://www.netsquared.org/participate/put-your-voice-in-the-mix ,
click on “submit your case study” and fill out the form.”

Britt has a long list of groups that could be profiled, or you can find them yourself. You can get ahold of Britt via bbravo@techsoup.org. Don’t be shy about profiling your own group, either!

This is just one of many opportunities for folks to help leverage Web2.0 for the betterment of the world. Check out http://www.netsquared.org/participate/be-netsquared-builder for more info on what can be done besides profile writing.

Here’s some of the most recent groups that have been profiled:

  • Earth Share Washington
    Earth Share of Washington is 66 leading environmental organizations that help to protect our environment and quality of life – locally, nationally and internationally.
  • Word of Blog
    Word of Blog is a new and free service that helps you spread the word about things you like, events you care about and worthy causes you want to support.
  • Pambazuka News
    Pambazuka News is a weekly electronic newsletter covering news, commentary, analysis and a range of other resources on human rights and development in Africa.

Here’s a link to the full list of profiled groups so far. It’s pretty inspiring!

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Technorati Tag Troubleshooting

Ok, so some folks are still having trouble getting their bookmarklet set up to be indexed by Technorati’s tag search. Below is the bookmarklet.

BlogTags

For some reason it appears that some users are getting code that looks like this:
a rel=”tag” href=”http://
instead of like this: a href=”http://…” rel=”tag”

Now I don’t know why this bookmarklet would give you code unlike what it gives me. I really don’t. My first guess is always to wonder wether it’s a PC/Mac thing. Are folks who are using PCs getting that funky code and Mac users are getting the correct code when they push the button? Any javascript experts out there with suggestions?

Ok, I’d really like to get this figured out and move on. This should be a big time saver once we get it taken care of.

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China Web News Roundup

Several items of interest today re China, where a number of regular readers live. I love it when people from China visit this site. Perhaps primarily for the rest of us, here’s some links to interesting news today about China and the web.

I imagine we’re going to see a lot of very exciting web-related things come out of China. I hope that the Chinese web will help the world become a more just place.

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Firefox MailTo: Fix

Isn’t it frustrating when the contact info on some one’s web page is just a “mailto:” link that makes your desktop email software system pop-up when you click on it? Are you one of the many people who only uses web based email, like Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail? Well, for Firefox users there’s now a solution. Check it over at the Download Squad’s write up of a tool that allows you to change your browser settings to open your web mail account instead when you click a “mailto:” link.

BTW, I’ve been really bummed lately but Firefox is just moving so so so slow on my Mac that I’ve been using Safari instead. Anyone else having a similar problem? There’s so many incredible things that can be done with Firefox, I’d really like to get it working for me again.

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