The 59 Smartest Organizations Online

Anyone who is looking for good ideas about how to get their nonprofit up to speed with the new generation of interactive web tools (loosely defined as Web 2.0 or social media) should keep an eye on this site: The 59 Smartest Organizations Online.

The site  features a live, dynamically-updated ‘popularity’ poll where anyone can nominate and vote for the organizatios they think are doing the best job of effectively using new user-driven web tools - such as blogs, photo streams, comment boards ranking/voting and whatever else is new and cool in the social media world.

The list contains many of the familiar names you’d expect: Greenpeace, Oxfam, MoveOn, Sierra Club; and also quite a few smaller unknowns who are doing truly innovative work to explore new web technologies. (check out Kiva, Modest Needs, PledgeBank and Witness for some refreshingly new ideas).

Much of the exploration into Web 2.0 for nonprofits is being done on non-commercial open-source platforms like Plone and Drupal, and by some of the edge-players in the online services marketplace, but increasingly the big players are also coming on board.

Posted by admin on February 11th, 2007 at 08:56am