Flickr Photo: Michelle BreaA couple of weeks ago, I wrote about some new strategies I'm using to keep track of the nineteen million things I'm either supposed to know or do something about. It's been working really well for me, but I realized that my netvibes page was missing hard tech news.

At the same time, we've been thinking about starting a book club here at NTEN and I wondered what good old fashioned books folks were reading about social media.

I asked for recommendations for both on Twitter yesterday and got a great list of ideas that several people asked me to compile. Here it is:

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1. David Pogue. The NYT technology columnist rocked the NTC. Here he is singing two songs during his plenary. Afterward, he sat down for an interview with Holly.
2. Utterz.com features bad grammar and a bizarre cow theme, but a cool service: audio blogging from your mobile phone. We used it at the NTC.
3. The National World War 2 Museum in New Orleans. They even sponsor WWII-themed trips to Europe.
4. LOLSeals. The Humane Society's new campaign gets everything right.
5. The NOLA Food Map. Great -- and greatly useful -- Google Maps mash-up to help residents locate food. Must. not. make. mashed. potatoes. joke. Oh, damn.
6. Emeril's New Orleans may be a name restaurant, but the food was innovative and well executed, and the service, impeccable: our table of 8 was served by 4 waiters, who set our dinners down simultaneously. Don't order the dessert sampler unless you bring the New Orleans Saints.
7. Loopt. It lets you map your friends' current locations. But might it not be more useful if you could map your enemies?
8. NOLA YURP. And not just because it's fun to say.

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New services and applications are coming online all the time and some of them can prove immediately useful for nonprofits. Here are ten of my current favorite tools for research, collaboration, and productivity.

1. News Alerts Via IM and SMS
Some things are best responded to in real time. For watching your high priority concerns, I recommend using a service that checks RSS feeds frequently and alerts you by instant message or text message whenever there is a new item of interest. Most feeds are better watched by feed readers or a start page but nothing beats real time notifications about urgent matters. This is how I break a lot of stories in my sector.

Rasasa.com is the smartest tool available, but if you're a Verizon customer in the United States you'll need to use something else. In that case, check out Zaptxt.com.