This podcast is an interview by David Collin of Deb Levine, the co-founder of Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS). The organization conducts a number of programs (e.g., inSpot and inBrief) the area of sexual health oriented particularly to young people that use online technology to reach and involve them.

Deb has been involved in sexual health issues since she established one of the first computer-based information services called "Go Ask Alice!" at Columbia University.

This podcast is a Net Tuesday presentation by Ben Rigby, the co-founder of Mobile Voter and author of the recently published book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth.

Ben is the co-founder of Akimbo Design, a successful new media design firm. He was also the CTO of DFILM, a youth-oriented entertainment and mobile applications company.

Ben has devoted himself lately to helping nonprofits learn how to capture the new wave of civic interest among young people by using the technologies that youth are familiar with.

This podcast is a Net Tuesday interview by David Collin of Ben Rigby, the co-founder of Mobile Voter and author of the recently published book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth.

Ben is the co-founder of Akimbo Design, a successful new media design firm. He was also the CTO of DFILM, a youth-oriented entertainment and mobile applications company.

Ben has devoted himself lately to helping nonprofits learn how to capture the new wave of civic interest among young people by using the technologies that youth are familiar with.

Presentation by Greg Wolff, President of the UnaMesa Association, at Net Tuesday San Francisco May 13, 2008.

The UnaMesa Association is a public charity dedicated to improving health care, education, and social services by supporting the individuals and small teams who provide these services. UnaMesa acts as an R&D organization with projects that bring together industry, academia, and NGOs to develop and distribute effective tools. Wolff has over 15 years in the research, design, and development of systems that support collaboration within and between work groups. He was a 2004-2005 Fellow in the Digital Vision Program at Stanford University, and is currently Vice President of Ricoh Innovations.

Presentation by Rushton Hurley of the Next Vista for Learning at Net Tuesday San Francisco on May 13, 2008.

Next Vista for Learning is an education-focused 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is building a free, screened library of video content by and for teachers and students everywhere.

Hurley has taught at the high school and college level, been a school principal, worked with charter and traditional schools, and organized and run an online school. His graduate school background at Stanford includes exploring technology-enhanced learning through multi-media and speech recognition. The idea of helping students become more engaged in, and confident with their learning is one that drives his passion and resources to make this project succeed. Give him a few minutes, and he'll convince you, too.

Presentation at Net Tuesday San Francisco on May 13, 2008 by Adam Frey, the co-founder of Wikispaces.

Wikispaces is a provider of easy to use and easy to adopt hosted wikis. Wikispaces provides public and private wikis for small groups, and private label wiki environments for organizations such as schools and nonprofits.

Prior to founding Wikispaces, Mr. Frey founded and managed the SourceForge line of business at VA Linux Systems (later VA Software). Frey holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors from Monash University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

In his presentation, Adam emphasizes that ease of use and freedom to explore make wikis a good tool for collaboration. They are a tool that educators have found to be useful in working with students, and they may be a good tool for nonprofits as well.

Interview by David Collin with Adam Frey, the co-founder of Wikispaces.

Wikispaces is a provider of easy to use and easy to adopt hosted wikis. Wikispaces provides public and private wikis for small groups, and private label wiki environments for organizations such as schools and nonprofits.

Prior to founding Wikispaces, Mr. Frey founded and managed the SourceForge line of business at VA Linux Systems (later VA Software). Frey holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors from Monash University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

In this podcast Frey discusses how wikis may be the right tool for easy collaboration projects in non-profits.

Jon Warnow is an online organizer and technology coordinator whose most recent project was Step It Up, a campaign to unite communities for on-the-ground action on climate change. In 2007, this web-based project helped to unleash the inner-activist in regular people by experimenting with a model of "open-source activism" that creates deeper engagement, an empowered constituency, and more effective results. By catalyzing and coordinating over 2000 synchronized off-line actions, the Step It Up campaign was able to channel the simmering concerns of a citizenry into a powerful, unified, politically strategic call to action.

Fresh out of college in Vermont, Jon is relatively new to the technology and non-profit scene, and is fascinated by both the hollow hype and the powerful potential of web-enabled activism. He's still doing his damndest to use the best of the web to get people to take effective action on the greatest challenge of our time--climate change. Currently, Jon and his co-conspirators are gearing up to launch an international campaign that harnesses our most promising technologies to build a truly global climate movement--and he wants you to help.

This show is a recording of Jon's presentation during the March 11th Net Tuesday San Francisco: Creating Successful Web Campaigns for Your Nonprofit.

Jon Warnow is an online organizer and technology coordinator whose most recent project was Step It Up, a campaign to unite communities for on-the-ground action on climate change. In 2007, this web-based project helped to unleash the inner-activist in regular people by experimenting with a model of "open-source activism" that creates deeper engagement, an empowered constituency, and more effective results. By catalyzing and coordinating over 2000 synchronized off-line actions, the Step It Up campaign was able to channel the simmering concerns of a citizenry into a powerful, unified, politically strategic call to action.

Fresh out of college in Vermont, Jon is relatively new to the technology and non-profit scene, and is fascinated by both the hollow hype and the powerful potential of web-enabled activism. He's still doing his damndest to use the best of the web to get people to take effective action on the greatest challenge of our time--climate change. Currently, Jon and his co-conspirators are gearing up to launch an international campaign that harnesses our most promising technologies to build a truly global climate movement--and he wants you to help.

David Collin, the SF Net Tuesday Podcaster, interviewed Jon during Net Tuesday San Francisco on March 11th.  Jon was one of the speakers during the March Net Tuesday, Creating Successful Web Campaigns for Your Nonprofit.

David Taylor is the Founder and Director of Radical Designs, a software development company focused on meeting the technological needs of grassroots social movement organizations. He has spent the last nine years building cutting edge websites, online organizing tools and web based mobilization strategies for over 200 social movement organizations, nonprofits, and political campaigns. When not building websites, David is a direct action trainer, and mass mobilization organizer, for the anti-globalization, anti-war, environmental and global justice movements as well as a political strategist for local progressive electoral campaigns in San Francisco.

This show is a recording of David's presentation during the March 11th Net Tuesday San Francisco: Creating Successful Web Campaigns for Your Nonprofit.

David Taylor is the Founder and Director of Radical Designs, a software development company focused on meeting the technological needs of grassroots social movement organizations. He has spent the last nine years building cutting edge websites, online organizing tools and web based mobilization strategies for over 200 social movement organizations, nonprofits, and political campaigns. When not building websites, David is a direct action trainer, and mass mobilization organizer, for the anti-globalization, anti-war, environmental and global justice movements as well as a political strategist for local progressive electoral campaigns in San Francisco.

David Collin, the SF Net Tuesday Podcaster, interviewed David Taylor during Net Tuesday San Francisco on March 11th.  David was one of the speakers during the March Net Tuesday, Creating Successful Web Campaigns for Your Nonprofit. 

This is a recording of Nate Ritter's presentation during the January 8, 2008 San Francisco Net Tuesday.  Nate is a San Diego-based developer and business consultiant. During the wildfires of 2007 in the San Diego area Nate used Twitter to set up a help center.  He was able to use various features of Twitter to keep  a constant stream of information and referrals to other resources flowing to local residents. Friends and relatives outside San Diego County also found the Tweets about the fire helpful.

You can learn more about Nate’s work by going to blog.perfectspace.com and you can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/nateritter

This podcast is a presentation by Jeremy Pepper, Communications Manager of The Point at the January 8, 2008 San Francisco Net Tuesday meeting.

The Point is a site designed to help people solve problems they can't solve alone. Consumers, employees, and community members can use The Point to initiate a "campaign" about an issue and enroll members until they reach the "tipping point" at which their action will have the impact of significant numbers of people.

This podcast is an interview of Jeremy Pepper, Communications Manager of The Point by David Collin at the January 8, 2008 San Francisco Net Tuesday meeting.

The Point is a site designed to help people solve problems they can't solve alone. Consumers, employees, and community members can use The Point to initiate a "campaign" about an issue and enroll members until they reach the "tipping point" at which their action will have the impact of significant numbers of people.

Nate is a web developer and consultant who used Twitter as a help center during the San Diego fires.  You can learn more about Nate’s work by going to blog.perfectspace.com and you can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/nateritter.

You can read a transcript of this interview on the NetSquared Blog.

This podcast is a presentation by Steve Miller, Product Manager for Google Earth Outreach at Net Tuesday, October 10, 2007.

Google Earth Outreach is a project to enable non-profit or public benefit groups to use Google Earth to capture the work they're doing, the people they're helping, and the change they're helping to enable in the visual context of the environment in which these activities take place. Google Earth Outreach enables any organization to quickly and easily get the resources it needs to create compelling stories through Google Earth layers. Steve discusses how any organization can quickly and easily annotate Google Earth with pictures and information to tell visual, compelling stories of the work they do.

This podcast is an interview by David Collin, the San Francisco Net Tuesday podcaster, with Steve Miller, Product Manager for Google Earth Outreach.

Google Earth Outreach is a project to enable non-profit or public benefit groups to use Google Earth to capture the work they're doing, the people they're helping, and the change they're helping to enable in the visual context of the environment in which these activities take place. Google Earth Outreach enables any organization to quickly and easily get the resources it needs to create compelling stories through Google Earth layers. Steve discusses how any organization can quickly and easily annotate Google Earth with pictures and information to tell visual, compelling stories of the work they do.

This podcast is an interview by David Collin of Ephrat Bitton at the  September 11 Net Tuesday in San Francisco . Ephrat is the co-founder of iCare, a web-based  service that facilitates person-to-person assistance for people recovering from disaster. Ephrat is a PhD engineering student at Berkeley and applies her skill in mathematical modeling to solve complex problems. With iCare she finds ways to use underutilized capacity in transportation systems to ship supplies to those in need at low cost.

This podcast is a presentation at Net Tuesday September 11 by Ephrat Bitton. Ephrat is the co-founder of iCare, a web-based  service that facilitates person-to-person assistance for people recovering from disaster. Ephrat is a PhD engineering student at Berkeley and applies her skill in mathematical modeling to solve complex problems. With iCare she finds ways to use underutilized capacity in transportation systems to ship supplies to those in need at low cost. 

This podcast is an interview by David Collin  with Jonathan Thompson at the September 11 Net Tuesday. Jonathan is the founder of  Humanlink, an organization that helps humanitarian organizations use technology so they may help others. Jonathan has worked in the humanitarian  field for the last six years. He has been the logistics officer for Medecins Sans Frontieres and other organizations working in Ethiopia, Sudan, Indonesia and Iraq/Kuwait. He talks about how the right techniques can enable relief operations in developing parts of the world work more cost-effectively.

This podcast is a presentation at the September 11 Net Tuesday by Jonathan Thompson, the founder of  Humanlink, an organization that helps humanitarian organizations use technology so they may help others. Jonathan has worked in the humanitarian  field for the last six years. He has been the logistics officer for Medecins Sans Frontieres and other organizations working in Ethiopia, Sudan, Indonesia and Iraq/Kuwait. He talks about how the right techniques can enable relief operations in developing parts of the world work more cost-effectively. 

An audio recording from the launch of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life on August 14th, 2007.   Over 100 avatars in Second Life and 60 people in San Francisco gathered to celebrate the Nonprofit Commons' launch.

Speakers included Anshe Chung, Glitteractica Cookie, Jeska Linden, Coughran Mayo and In Kenzo.

You can learn more about the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life at www.nonprofitcommons.org and you can watch a video from the event at netsquared.blip.tv.

The recording begins part way through Glitteractica Cookie’s opening remarks.

Presentation by Daniel Newman at San Francisco's Net Tuesday.

Dan Newman is the Executive Director and Co-founder of MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan nonprofit that illuminates the connection between money and politics. During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. At the end of the Conference, each attendee voted for the projects that they thought would have the most impact. MAPLight was the first place winner.

Presentation by Ann Blocker, a moderator with Freecycle, at the San Francisco Net Tuesday. The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving--and getting--stuff for free in their own towns.

During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. At the end of the Conference, each attendee voted for the projects they thought would have the most impact. Freecycle was the third place prize winner.

An interview by David Collin with Ann Blocker, a moderator with Freecycle, at the San Francisco Net Tuesday. The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving--and getting--stuff for free in their own towns.

During the 2nd NetSquared Conference in May 2007, 21 projects that use the web for social impact presented their work and received feedback and support from the NetSquared Community. At the end of the Conference, each attendee voted for the projects they thought would have the most impact. Freecycle was the third place prize winner. 

Katy Newton and Sean Connelley, producers of Not Just a Number for The Oakland Tribune, and their web affiliate insidebayarea.com, talk about the  citizen journalism project.

A presentation by Jonathan Boutelle, Co-founder and CTO of SlideShare at the June 12, 2007 Net Tuesday in San Francisco.  SlideShare is a site for hosting and sharing presentations.  Users can upload their own PowerPoint presentation, view and download others, and make a mashup of the material from the site.  SlideShare is a site for shared knowledge.

An interview by David Collin, the Net Tuesday San Francisco podcaster, with Jonathan Boutelle, Co-founder and CTO of SlideShare.  SlideShare is a site for hosting and sharing presentations.  Users can upload their own PowerPoint presentation, view and download others, and make a mashup of the material from the site.  SlideShare is a site for shared knowledge.

A Net Tuesday presentation by Katy Newton and Sean Connelley, producers of Not Just a Number.  Not Just a Number is a community journalism project focused on the topic of violence and violence prevention, produced for the Oakland Tribune and their web affiliate, insidebayarea.com.  Last year, Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people.  NJN was created to give Oakland a place to share stories and to connect and develop solutions by utilizing a variety of new media journalism tools and interactive web based technologies.

 A Net Tuesday presentation by Anne-Christine d'Adesky, the Director of Global Advocacy for World Pulse Magazine's PulseWire.  PulseWire is an interactive website where women worldwide can speak for themselves to the world and collaborate to solve global problems.

PulseWire is a tool designed by and for diverse users: a Sri Lankan market woman looking for new sources of micro-creidt, a Zimbabwean journalist documenting a crackdown in the streets with her cell phone, or a New York businesswoman offering to bring school supplies to women's groups in Cambodia.

Net Tuesday podcaster, David Collin, interviews Anne-Christine d'Adesky, the Director of Global Advocacy for World Pulse Magazine's PulseWire.  PulseWire is an interactive website where women worldwide can speak for themselves to the world and collaborate to solve global problems.

PulseWire is a tool designed by and for diverse users: a Sri Lankan market woman looking for new sources of micro-creidt, a Zimbabwean journalist documenting a crackdown in the streets with her cell phone, or a New York businesswoman offering to bring school supplies to women's groups in Cambodia.

This podcast is a presentation by Ben Rattray, the founder of Change.org at the April 10, 2007 Net Tuesday. According to the Change.org site:


Ben demonstrates the features of Change.org and discusses how individuals and nonprofits are using it to build critical mass around issues.

This podcast is an interview by David Collin, NetSquared's San Francisco podcaster with Ben Rattray, the founder of Change.org. According to their site:


Ben explains why he established a site to enable people who are passionate issues to network and participate in ways not commonly available to them through established organizations. Ultimately, the goal is for the network and nonprofits to collaborate on common goals.

This podcast is a Net Tuesday presentation by Gina Bianchini, the co-founder of Ning. Ning is a platform for individuals and groups to use to create their own social network. Ning has a rich feature set, and all features can be configured and customized to meet the network's needs. Ning enables users to have the experience of control of all aspects of their network rather than being a tiny subset of a massive social network. Gina describes how individuals and nonprofits are using Ning.

This podcast is an interview by David Collin, the Net Tuesday podcaster in San Francisco, with Gina Bianchini, the co-founder of Ning. Ning is a platform for individuals and groups to use to create their own social network. Ning has a rich feature set, and all features can be configured and customized to meet the network's needs. Ning enables users to have the experience of control of all aspects of their network rather than being a tiny subset of a massive social network. Gina describes how individuals and nonprofits are using Ning.

We've all heard of the KISS Principle: keep it simple, stupid! The following presentation by Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, is testimony to the notion that a simple, lower-tech approach to reaching people can sometimes be the most effective one. Ken has extensive experience with IT and telecommunications. He uses that knowledge to help nonprofits implement SMS communications technologies for reaching large numbers of people in the developing world effectively and inexpensively through the most ubiquitous communications device in the world: the mobile phone.

We've all heard of the KISS Principle: keep it simple, stupid! The following interview by David Collin of Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, is testimony to the notion that a simple, lower-tech approach to reaching people can sometimes be the most effective one. Ken has extensive experience with IT and telecommunications. He uses that knowledge to help nonprofits implement SMS communications technologies for reaching large numbers of people in the developing world effectively and inexpensively through the most ubiquitous communications device in the world: the mobile phone.  

Can you work on tough, real world problems with a game? In this interview by David Collin with Darian Hickman, we hear about one effort to answer that question in the affirmative. Darian is founder of Village: Play the World of Social Enterprise, a real-time strategy game for the PC that puts the player in the position of an entrepreneur building companies that lift villages out of poverty. The real goal is to get players "hooked" on emerging world development. Eventually Darian hopes to make Village a web-based, multi-player game.

Can you work on tough, real world problems with a game? In this interview by David Collin with Darian Hickman, we hear about one effort to answer that question in the affirmative. Darian is founder of Village: Play the World of Social Enterprise, a real-time strategy game for the PC that puts the player in the position of an entrepreneur building companies that lift villages out of poverty. The real goal is to get players "hooked" on emerging world development. Eventually Darian hopes to make Village a web-based, multi-player game.

This podcast is an interview by David Collin with Dave Sanford, Product and Business Strategist of LinkedIn. Sanford explains how non-profit organizations can use LinkedIn to bring attention to their cause.

Photo by Leo Romero

This podcast is an interview by David Collin with Dave Sanford, Product and Business Strategist of LinkedIn. Sanford explains how non-profit organizations can use LinkedIn to bring attention to their cause.

Photo by Leo Romero

This podcast is a presentation by Oz Basarir, Chief Technology Officer of the Natural Capital Institute, sponsor of the environmental activism social networking site WiserEarth. WiserEarth promotes positive social change by empowering the largest and fastest growing movement in the world � the hundreds of thousands of organizations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment. WiserEarth provides tools to help these organizations find each other, collaborate, share resources and build alliances.

Photo by Leo Romero

This is a interview by David Collin with Oz Basarir, Chief Technology Officer for the Natural Capital Institute, sponsor of WiserEarth. WiserEarth promotes positive social change by empowering the largest and fastest growing movement in the world � the hundreds of thousands of organizations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment. WiserEarth provides tools to help these organizations find each other, collaborate, share resources and build alliances.

Photo by Leo Romero

This is a presentation at Net Tuesday in San Francisco by Matt Flannery, CEO and co-founder of Kiva.org. Kiva lets people connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, ordinary people can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make strides towards economic independence. Kiva partners with existing microfinance institutions. In doing so, it gains access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide.

This is an interview by David Collin with Matt Flannery, CEO and co-founder of Kiva for Net Tuesday. Kiva lets ordinary people connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, anybody can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make strides towards economic independence. Kiva partners with existing microfinance institutions. In doing so, it gains access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide.

This is a presentation by Pim Techamuanvivit at the December 12, 2006, Net Tuesday in San Francisco. Pim is the author of the well-known food blog, Chez Pim. She is also the organized of Menu for Hope, an online fundraising event she organized with food bloggers to support the UN World Food Program.

 

Pim Techamuanvivit is author of Chez Pim, a widely read food blog. This is an interview by David Collin with Pim about her interests, her blog, and about the Menu for Hope, an online fundraising event she organized with food bloggers to support the UN World Food Program.

This Net Tuesday is Nica Lorber's presentation about RootsCamp at Net Tuesday in San Francisco.  Nica organized the November RootsCamp in San Francisco. RootsCamp was a self-organizing conversation and relationship-building event among progressives to discuss the lessons learned during the 2006 mid-term elections. Nica also talks about the RootsCamp that occurred in Second Life.The RootsCamp debriefing was a relationship-building event and self-organizing conversation among progressives in San Francisco about the lessons learned during the 2006 mid-term election. Nica also talked about the RootsCamp that occurred in Second Life.

David Collin interviews Nica Lorber at the San Francisco Net Tuesday.  Nica organized the November RootsCamp in San Francisco. RootsCamp was a self-organizing conversation and relationship-building event among progressives to discuss the lessons learned during the 2006 mid-term elections. Nica also talks about the RootsCamp that occurred in Second Life.

A recording of a presentation at the San Francisco Net Tuesday by Larry Halff, the founder of Ma.gnolia. Ma.gnolia is a social bookmarking service that makes the social aspect of bookmarking and tagging easier. Ma.gnolia  offers several options for groups that want to share bookmarks with everyone, with a select set of taggers, or with a private group of associates.

An interview from San Francisco's Net Tuesday by David Collin with Larry Halff, the founder of Ma.gnolia, a social bookmarking service that makes the social side of social bookmarking work even better. With contacts, groups, and different ways to share bookmarks both within and outside of Ma.gnolia, the service makes working together on a casual basis, or more formal projects fun and easy.

David Collin interviews Amy Hill, Community Projects Director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. In addition to being the Community Projects Director for the Center, Amy is also a documentary filmmaker and public health consultant. Amy's lengthy involvement in coordinating community-based women's health and violence prevention projects led her in 2000 to co-found the Silence Speaks Digital Storytelling initiative, which teaches survivors and witnesses of violence how to create short digital videos of courage and healing. She continues to coordinate this and other community-driven projects at CDS.

Geek Entertainment TV is an emerging global media empire, reporting from deep inside the bubble as it re-inflates. GETV covers buzzword compliant topics such as web 2.0, tagging, AJAX, social software and the bubble juice known as VCs.

This is an interview by David Collin with Teck Chia and Flora Sun, the founders of Gabbly. Gabbly is a chat service that allows you to chat around any webpage. Gabbly is building a platform that enables people to connect instantly and collaborate around any content, topic or interest.

This is an interview by David Collin of Susan Tenby and Salvador Luna of Compumentor about how they created the TechSoup presence in Second Life and organized the "mixed-reality" Net Tuesday that took place both in Second Life and in San Francisco at the same time on July 18, 2006.

David Collin interviews Jeska Linden, Community Manager for Linden Lab, about the mixed-reality that happened during the July 18th Net Tuesday in San Francisco. Net Tuesday occurred simultaneously in the "real" world at CompuMentor and in the virtual world of Second Life.