Resource Roundup 12/4

The Growing Digital Divide Among Nonprofit Organizations (Coyote Communications)
An interesting post from Jayne Cravens, about a growing digital - and organizational - divide between "traditional, hierarchical and tech-wary" organizations and "progressive, inclusive and tech-savvy" organizations.

How organizational structure affects web strategy and implementation (Social Signal)
An in-depth podcast on structuring organizations to support website work, with speakers from the ACLU and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Well worth a listen.

Participatory Media Links and Resources (Berkeley)
Apparently put together for a Berkeley class, this wiki provides a useful and lengthy list of resources about "participatory media" - i.e. blogs, wikis, RSS, tagging, video sharing, mashups, etc.

Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites (Real World Software Development)
Need another huge list of Web 2.0 tools? You're in luck.

Saving the Amazon with GPS and Google Earth (Mongabay)
A case study about the Amazon Conservation Team's work to help Amazon natives use Google Earth and GPS to protect their home.

Our Office 2.0 Experiment (Vitamin)
A small, distributed firm experiments with transitioning to Web 2.0 tools for all their office productivity software (i.e. word processing, backup, etc), and reports back

Rules for Using MySpace in Politics (Personal Democracy)
A practical list of things to consider when using MySpace for advocacy, based on advice from two nonprofit advocacy experts.

Bottom-up social networking (Quixotic1)
Some great additional thoughts about the benefits and dangers of bottom up organizing through social networking sites from Ian Boothe, the author of our Using Social Networking to Prevent Genocide article.