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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.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Giving Good Poke. America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First! You're Not Going To Ask Us To Give You An Outhouse for Your Birthday? Working Wikily: The Secrets of A Wiki Gardener. The Kids in Cambodia Say Thank You. Graphing Social Patterns: My Slides. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Birthday Greeting.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So someone like Sun think that they need to give equal time to making their PowerPoint clone and their Access clone. There’s no reason that OpenOffice Calc *couldn’t* take the lead and go past Excel, especially with the socialized functionality I was talking about. I know it is awfully Web 1.0

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. You can install a free trail and give it a spin. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 at 8:53 pm Loraine Lawson 02.16.09

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Help My Pal Beth Win $50,000 for Cambodian Orphans

Have Fun - Do Good

My friend Beth Kanter, of Beth's Blog , is working hard to win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation by January 31, 2008 as part of the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. Beth's friend, Michele Martin, set up a page through Global Giving where you can donate as little as $10 to the Sharing Foundation.

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. I will also try, for the first time in my life, to have a blogging schedule for topics and to give more attention to proofing or at least reading my posts out loud before publishing. 50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog.

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Online Communications that Don't Suck

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Given our multiple team members, we use a wiki as an easy-to-use online collaborative space, where we keep a calendar of upcoming blog topics and draft blog posts. The wiki helps us avoid version control issues and allows us to keep a history of changes by author. In July 2008, rising costs and shortages of food were in the news.