Resource Roundup 5/31

Writing Tools: Just Add Inspiration (Beaconfire Wire)
A look at software that aids writing quality - such as tools that generate tag clouds from your text and analyze the grade level of your writing

Four Lessons for Organizational Blogs (INFluence)
Some great, tactical advice on organizational blogging from ForumOne

Building a Widget Response Network (Technically Speaking)
An interesting proposal for a network for widgets which would allow a network to deploy a campaign virtually instantaneously

Wikis in Plain English (CommonCraft)
From the folks who brought us the popular "RSS in Plain English" video, here's a similarly useful and engaging look at Wikis

Make Communication Tools Simple and Ubiquitous (How To Change the World)
A thought piece on the key ingredients that are necessary to ensure communication and social networking tools are widely used

Using Google Docs and Spreadsheets for Online Collaboration (Wild Apricot Blog)
An interesting how-to on using Google Docs and Spreadsheets to collaborate with people in real time.

Skypecasting For Beginners - Free Audio Conferencing For Up To 100 Participants (Robin Good)
Detailed directions on how to setup a skypecast - an audio conference - using skype, which is a great conference call possibility especially if you have a number of participants outside the US.

7 Ways to Send HUGE Files (Mashable)
A roundup of methods that let you send files of more than 500MB (as well as more rationally large files, presumably)

Using Partimage to Clone Hard Disks (pittman.ws)
A detailed how-to on replicating (ghosting) hard drives with Partimage, an open source alternative to Norton Ghost

Google and Salesforce Team Up (Tate Hausman)
Rumor has it that Google and Salesforce are teaming up to create an integrated tool suite. Tate Hausman describes what that might mean for nonprofits.

Facebook's New Open Platform (Fortune)
Facebook opens up it's platform to allow anyone to create their own FaceBook widget.