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As promised, here are my top ten resources on social 2.0 or how to use social media for social change —

- Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant who writes about the effective use of social media tools in the nonprofit sector to enable social change.

- NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network

NTEN is a community of nonprofit organizations that aims to help them to use technology more effectively via it’s blog, webinars, newsletters, conferences, events, research and online community.

- Net Squared: Remixing the Web for Social Change

Net Squared is another community of nonprofit organizations that helps them use technology via its blog, online community, events, conferences and mashup challenges.

- BlogHer Social Change Section

Posts on social change, non-profits and NGOs by women bloggers at BlogHer.

- TechSoup: The Technology Place for Nonprofits

TechSoup.org offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support

- NPTech  Read More

After a year of thinking about doing a vidcast, I’m finally doing one.

I haven’t done a vidcast so far because I didn’t have the right camera, the right microphone, the right editing software, the right studioesque setting. It’s a little ironic, then, that I’m finally doing my vidcast when I don’t even have a laptop, or a room I don’t have to share with someone.

I record my vidcast on my Nokia E71 mobile phone, during the few moments I have the room to myself either at my office, or my hostel. Then I upload it to YouTube from my mobile phone itself, whenever I have access to a fast enough wi-fi connection.

I see my vidcast as a lesson. To do something we really want to do — write a book, make a movie, start a business, travel the world — we need fewer resources — time, money, energy, gadgets — than we think we do.

So, what is it that you really want to do? What is stopping you from doing it? Think about it. Maybe, you already have everything that you need.