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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It has become arguably the most popular open source CMS, and is a very able platform for creating all sorts of great web applications. it’s absolutely an application to get to know. Adobe Air , and applications. Adobe Air is an impressive framework for rich internet applications. Proprietary Tools.

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Why associations should choose the Nimble AMS + Salesforce partnership

Nimble AMS

By 2008, association technology was stagnant, and Nimble AMS began to design a blueprint for innovative technology with association-specific solutions. With applications like Nimble AMS, you can offer a modern, connected member experience and bring your organization’s data and teams together.”

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How the Pandemic Has Changed Pro Bono

sgEngage

In the height of the 2008 recession, skills-based volunteering exploded across the corporate and nonprofit sectors. As a diverse swath of organizations are looking for of infrastructure supports, skills-based models must be diversified to meet changing sector needs, just as they did in 2008. New Skills-Based Volunteering Models.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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Dreamforce 2008 post-mortem - back to the cheap seats

Judi Sohn

Tuesday morning’s keynote focused on applications. &# The integration with Amazon web services went over better, and seemed more immediately appropriate for the big business crowd in the cloud. Om Malik has a bigger picture view of the new announcements here. I kid you not.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits June 11, 2008 The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) The application says to Social Actions, “Show me everything that matches this URI.”

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