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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So I did the usual, gave up my gmail password. So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. Spokeo takes your gmail, aol, or yahoo address book and, looking at a wide variety of web 2.0 Then, for the creepy part. I joined Spokeo.

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Things We Like (October 2008)

NTEN

Also, you can apparently use your Gmail account with OpenID. Now your entire org can benefit from tools like "Mail Goggles", which promises to stop you from sending regrettable e-mails after a couple of drinks. The We Are Media Wiki. Yes, we helped make it. That doesn't mean we can't like it!

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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. High bandwidth to your home or office is a necessary requirement to cloud computing.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They own YouTube (third most trafficked website globally) and Blogger (the fifth most trafficked)… and Picassa, Picnik, Orkut, Gmail, Chrome, etc. Google.com is already the number one visited site around the world and they dominate search results.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

That’s because a lot of the social networking sites allow you to find other people on their site by giving them your gmail username and password, or your email contact list. A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site.

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New Google and Yahoo Standards for Email

M+R

How to check your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authentication The easiest way to do this is with an account using Gmail’s inbox (whether that’s an @gmail.com address or one using Google Apps). If you don’t have a Gmail account, you can also check with a Yahoo address — it’s a bit trickier but still doable.

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Quality, not just quantity

Connection Cafe

Another day, another new feature of Gmail. There's a good post from OtherInbox that all you nonprofiteers might want to emulate for your Gmail users to encourage them to mark your messages as Priority. Here's a gem of a post from Peter Genuardi in 2008 that addresses this exact point. Author: Sally Heaven. Become a Priority.

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