Mussings on law, tech, & unrealted topic by a geek

I will be offline, on vacation, the next two weeks.

I had a great meeting yesterday with Disability Rights Washington over social media strategy which has prompted me to update my list of recommend resources for NPO’s thinking about getting into Social Media. Here is the new list:

Best Blogs:
BoingBoing – Great short form blog, Cory Doctorow is my favorite writer on the blog he cover everything from Do It Yourself Culture to user rights technology issues.
Freedom to Tinker: Group blog hosted by hosted by Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Very strong policy posts with a diverse set of views.
EFF Deep Links – EFF’s blog is a decent example of a nonprofit blog for an npo that also does litigation.
Blogging Best Practices Post w/ a video from Cory Doctorow
Posner and Becker’s Blog – Law and Economics, this a long form blog that covers current issues in a back and forth debate between Posner a very out spoken judge & Becker an Econ professor at Chicago U.  The post are a little long for my taste but a lot of people really like them, I would not publish post longer then this.

Online video:
RSS in Plain English by Common Craft.  Common Craft is a great local start up that does amazing short informational videos.
5 mins with Harold Feld - FCC/ Copyright public interest lawyer at Public Knowledge that is great at translating Law into plain English.
New in IP – a weekly video cast I do on Copyright & Patent issue, very low production cost focusing on recent news and commentary.

Flickr photo pools for NPO:
Sierra Club’s Daily Ray of Hope – Amazing User Generated photo pool.
Tech Soup’s Article on How NPO’s can get the most out of Flickr

Free copyright licensing designed to enable sharing:
Creative Commons
Blog posts From Beth Kanter on How NPO’s can utilize CC

Hehe, great video. Several people I know from the UW’s iSchool are in it including my information systems professor Bob Boiko: