Non-Profit Tech Blog

New site just went live today but official launch isn’t until next week. It’s still in alpha but it’s another example of using the Web to fulfill some unmet needs in our sector. I will definitely have more details for you in the next few days. It’s a site founded by Jason Paez and George Reed with technical help from Ryan Ozimek of PICnet. It’s a pretty site — much prettier than its PHP origins would suggest. (Just kidding there, PHP script kiddies!)

Think of this site as an Evite-Meetup-Upcoming for nonprofits. In terms of an ecosystem, I think p4ap (Party 4 A Purpose) could fill in the niche of event scheduling and planning that nonprofits really need. If they can just link this together with existing social networks like Change.org or Project Agape or best of all, Facebook then I think they’ve got an application that has a chance of gaining traction in the space. I talked to Jason briefly today and I think he “gets it” when he says he wants to interoperate with existing social networks and to be entirely mashable.

Personally, I think, at the beginning at least only development staff will be posting the events. It’s not clear that volunteers would be mindful enough to post events but you never know. It IS clear that you’ll now have the ability to go to a nonprofit event almost every night. Is this an unmet need for donors? I think it makes sense only if p4ap does a good job pushing its events all throughout the Web.

They’re in alpha so what’s most important is that you, my dear reader, will leave a comment below. Do you think your development staff will use the site? What are the audiences that you foresee for a site like this? Is it too much like other social networking apps? Do you see any key differentiators here?