A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.
- replyforall lets you donate your e-mail signature to a good cause. Speaking of good causes...
- Not enough hours in the day? Hack your brain! But good luck convincing your boss you need that cot in the office to work more efficiently.
- Robot societies. Best line: "Transistorized traitors emerged which wrongly identified poison zone as food, luring their trusting brethren to their doom before scooting off to silently charge in a food zone - presumably while using a mechanical claw to twirl a silicon carving of a handlebar moustache."
- Crowdsourcing. It can work.
- It's hard to beat $Free.99. Pontifix just released a white paper, "Strategies for Nonprofit Marketing in a Recession", which has good some good tips and only a little self-promotion. Over at Full Circle Associates, you can grab their Digital Identity Workbook and adapt it to your own needs.
- Somebody put a lot of work into the Wookiepedia. It's a one-joke site, but a pretty funny one.
- The 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Awards are only open until July 31st. Surely your org can write a better tagline than a Hollywood marketer: "4 Girls. 2 Canoes. 1 Body."? Please. Division by 2 != cleverness.
- Remember that evening reception at the NTC when you had a beer in one hand, a plate of food in the other, and no place to sit? Enter the Go Plate. Genius!
- Science. The U.S. Forest Service's "Climate Change Primer" starts out with a discussion of cyclical climate change over the last 400,000 years. Then it hits you with Figure 6. Ouch! But not to worry: we can always engineer our way out of this, right?
- There may be no cooler 9-second video on YouTube than this shot of a volcanic eruption, taken from the International Space Station.
- Passwords.
- It seems like we're forgetting something. Oh, right: cat with bag on head. Be warned: you could burn most of a day watching Maru do, well, weird cat things.