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SaaS vs. Open Source

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 SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. From my perspective, the key is openness.

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. (If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.) Be Helpful.

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NTC Links

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But there are a few tidbits that I’ve enjoyed: There is a great Flickr stream building up of photos tagged with “07NTC &# including one of me. And I think most of the bloggers are too busy giving, or going to sessions to blog much. Technorati Tags: 07NTC , nptech { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 John Frost 04.06.07

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Facebook Ad Platform

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, more importantly, will nonprofit messages get lost in the stream of news feed posts about Joe being a fan of Apple, and Jane renting a four star movie from Blockbuster? { Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. What does this mean for nonprofits? Well, it depends. Be Helpful.

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And I prefer the popup to delicious opening in the same window and messing up my page navigation stream. 4 Michelle 09.27.06 at 10:39 am Marnie: Yeah, Ma.gnolia is slow sometimes, but speed isn’t much of a factor for me. I do wish they had a tag cloud add on for blogs, too. Beth: nope. I haven’t found one. Be Helpful.

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

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Peter Deitz is a long-time member and contributor in the NetSquared (and TechSoup) community; he started the NetSquared Montreal group and his Social Actions project was a winner in the 2008 N2Y3 Mashup Challenge.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. The new textbook teaches the use of Khmer language Free and Open Source applications, such as OpenOffice, Mekhala (Firefox) and Moyura (Thunderbird), which have been fully translated to Khmer language (Cambodian).