Here is a link to a blog post stating that there is another blog post about 10 other blogs that you should be reading.
http://ext337.org/article/which-nonprofit-technology-blogs-should-you-be-reading
Wow. Can this be more pointless? Oh yeah. How about the one that you'e reading right now.
This one about a blog post that's about a blog post about blogs. This is like Bob Loblaw's Law Blog.
Welcome to Google life. Just make links, baby! Do some networking with other bloggers and link like hell to each other. It doesn't matter if you're wasting everyone's time because you might make some ad money or get a job out of it!
Fragmentation. I'm not sure what to do about it in the blogosphere. But it's a big problem in the nonprofit sector. There are a lot of smaller orgs that are fighting for the same donor base and competing against bloated giants that overspend on marketing. It's hard for the little guys to compete if they cannibalize each other.
Merging may be a great way to survive the down economy and it could give the new orgs a competitive advantage once things turn around.
The biggest factors preventing a lage-scale roll-up may be organizational culture and behavior. Most startup nonprofits were launched by fiercely independent entrepreneurs who were fed up with the status quo or large national org committed to their cause (How many breast cancer nonprofits are there?). The attitude of the founder or director pervades the entire company. And it's difficult to get 2 renegade groups to admit that it's better if they joined forces to fight the man.
But I think that as reality hits (and it will), merging may be a viable option for good, smart organizations that just need a little help to cross the chasm.
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