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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Must Prioritize the Mobile Web in 2014

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Mobile Web is often discussed as a future trend that nonprofits have time to prepare for, but the reality is that by the end of 2014, the majority of your supporters and donors will be viewing your website, email communications, blogs, and social media content on smartphones and tablets. In truth, the Mobile Web is already here.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Web Server Software

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

By Web Server Software, I mean the software used to serve websites/pages. The current version of MS Server in use is Server 2008. Microsoft has web server software called IIS , and it’s database server product is MS SQL server , which people use for far more than just serving web site data. It is way ahead of IIS.

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To the Small Nonprofits on the Social Web: 5,000 is the Magic Number

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I wanted to give some encouragement to all the small and medium-sized nonprofits out there on the Social Web that tweet, share and post regularly with the hope of growing their communities and inspiring social good – some feedback I received last week from Line Storgaard-Conley, Director of Digital and Social Media Strategy at Safe Kids Worldwide (..)

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Top 10 blog posts of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s the top 10 list for 2008: 1) Remember when 1 MB was alot ? I wrote this post back in 2005, and it is the most popular in 2008! 5) The Search for Good Web Conferencing. 5) The Search for Good Web Conferencing. It’s actually because someone included it in a Wikipedia Article (no, it wasn’t me.).

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

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. That’s today. And what does “Linked Open Data” refer to?

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Celebrate Today: One Web. For All.

Amy Sample Ward

A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating the Web. This year’s theme is One Web. So, for OneWebDay today I wanted to share a few ways that I think we can all help others join the conversation about creating a Web that includes everyone. Are you developing tools, applications, or platforms for the web?

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The evolution of web hosting

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. It wasn’t so long after that that virtual hosting companies became ubiquitous, and affordable for nonprofits.

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