"Virtualization is all about maximizing the technology you have to create a whole that is more powerful than its individual parts." This article explores the role of virtualization technologies in the nonprofit sector.

A great resource for anyone interested in non-profit communication strategy and non-profit communication technologies

As a consequence of spending so much time online, we now leave traces of our personality everywhere. Our online behaviors are of interest to recruiters and employers, who are desperately trying to translate them into "digital reputations" and use them to find talent online. This HBR article mentions that Egosurfing -or self-googling-is now more important than updating your CV.

In light of our discussion this week on the social web, this article challenges the dominant history of the internet suggesting that the true social web started in the 1990s with link sharing. Today, the vast trove of social traffic is essentially invisible to most analytic programs. The author calls it the "DARK SOCIAL."

I know many of us place high value on online customer reviews. Think of this site as the "Urban Spoon" of software and apps. You can browse technologies by theme (creative, customers, team, productivity etc.) view screen shots and read user reviews. You can also browse compiled lists of technologies posted by users of the site. Ex. "how I manage my retail business" or "28 ideas for an awesome office" This site might be helpful exploring technologies for our research paper!

Microblogging has become a hot trend for enterprises that want to help employees share information internally. The article takes a look at how three businesses are using Twitter alternatives and best practices for implementing it.

Building off of Yates article...Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst. Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm asked applicants to send links representing their "Web presence," such as a Twitter account or Tumblr blog. Something to think about when applying for internships and jobs in the future!

I agree with both of your comments Rya and Raman. There really does seem to be a privacy issue here. I suppose with all the recent competition for work, employers are looking for ways to distinguish candidates (doesn't seem fair). Although we started off building our "online presence" for personal reasons, there appears to be a need to build a public professional presence as well. Perhaps the trick is to keep your personal account private to maintain our sense of privacy and start building an online professional profile that is public. Blogging about a professionally related topic, linking field-specific articles etc. might be the way to get noticed.

In light of our conversation about Prezi last class, here is an article that suggests Prezi is more than just a presentation tool, but rather can be used by businesses to advertise their services, or introduce their products on their websites. You can even develop a website entirely in Prezi by first creating the Prezi and then linking to it with an iframe tag.

In addition to the obvious way small businesses are using Pinterest (communicating with customers) some clever entrepreneurs have found the platform to be a great way to communicate inside the office as well. This short article provides three unexpected ways to use Pinterest in the office : vision boarding, staff engagement and internal communications.

A really interesting read about the state of digital teams in the nonprofit sector. Senior online leaders from 67 nonprofit organizations contributed to the final report. You can also download the world's first digital team structure benchmark for the nonprofit sector for free: http://digitalteams.org/

"Their work often demands instant communication and analysis. Yet fewer than half of Canadian farmers have access to high-speed Internet" We've looked at the socio-demographic and psychological variables of the digital divide. Geography plays a role too. Here's quick look at the implications of a digital disconnect on innovation within the Canadian farming sector.