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Things We Like (January 2009)

NTEN

The CTC Vista Project has opened its annual application cycle. Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. And our new Sprout-built fundraising widget could help as many as 57 people attend the 2009 NTC. FlowingData has mapped the growth of WalMart across the U.S. since 1967. Need a techie on the cheap?

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Interview with Lindsay Gruber: Building Corporate Resilience through Pro Bono Volunteerism

Saleforce Nonprofit

Cheryl Timoney (CT): At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a huge focus on the shift to virtual and engaging volunteers and the community through digital means. Since the shift to virtual, how has volunteering changed? How do you do that in an all-virtual world? Lindsay Gruber (LG): So much, and in so many ways.

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Social Media Gurus Offer Their Predictions for 2009: A Few That Might Resonate With Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lucy Bernholz has been sharing her predictions for philanthropy and buzzwords for 2009. Peter Kim asked a group of social media experts in business for their predictions about social media for 2009. I read through the paper and pulled out a couple of predictions that resonated and may be applicable to the nonprofit sector.

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. Transparency has its benefits, but so does privacy.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

WP is clean and easy, and virtually hassle-free. It has become arguably the most popular open source CMS, and is a very able platform for creating all sorts of great web applications. I am administering and/or responsible for a couple of Virtual Private Servers that use it. it’s absolutely an application to get to know.

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The evolution of web hosting

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It wasn’t so long after that that virtual hosting companies became ubiquitous, and affordable for nonprofits. 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. When was that?

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How to find out about free and open source software

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. { Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. {