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Last minute tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenOffice.org is coming closer to doing PDF import. In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. This was to appease the European Commission. This is great news. Happy dance, anyone?

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Why I won’t be buying a Kindle

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

odt, rich text, pdf) Allows any vendor of books (like Lulu, for instance) or any independent author to provide books for the device. I want something like a Kindle that: Has wifi (EVDO would be a nice addition, but some of us live in areas where the EVDO network does not go) Allows me to share books with people. Sorry, Amazon.

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Benchmarks Extra: Monthly Giving

NTEN

Working on our 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we noticed something interesting when looking at year-over-year data by sector: The share of online revenue from monthly giving for International groups seemed to decline from 2009 to 2010. Download the PDF. We decided to do some deeper digging to see if we were right!

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In addition, DimDim has an integration with Moodle (PDF) ! I went back to look at DimDim – and lo and behold – DimDim went GPL ! They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. And also an integration with SugarCRM. Now things are getting interesting.

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I’m going to watch this pretty carefully. issue as they see it.

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Using Social Media to Share Research

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. It’s downloadable as an ePub or as a PDF. By Patricia Martin, 2010. I invite you to download Tipping the Culture and see what top brands are doing to create connections with Millennials.

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GSA Shows Some Creativity with Challenge.gov

Forum One

It should remove a lot of barriers and friction to agencies exploring the use of such competitions, thereby helping them answer President Obama’s call to use challenges and prizes to spur innovation (PDF). Then in March 2010, OMB issued guidance on the “Use of Challenges and Prizes to Promote Open Government” (PDF).

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