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How Your Nonprofit Can Tap Into the Power of App and Web-based Push Notifications

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Push notifications were first introduced by Apple in 2009, yet most nonprofits are still not utilizing push notifications as part of their online marketing and fundraising strategy. By Sajan Devshi from Learndojo , a nonprofit educational website that specializes in providing free A-level and GCSE resources to students, teachers, and parents.

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Spell check, Grammar check, now Inclusive check? Google’s ‘Assistive Writer’

Whole Whale

Most of us use some form of spell check every day, whether it’s the built-in spell checker in our word processing software or a web-based service like Google’s Gmail. Grammarly, the first grammar checker, was actually created in 2009. And since then, it has become an integral part of our lives. Quick History of Grammar Checks.

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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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Google needs to stop treating support like it’s an add-on feature

Judi Sohn

I’ve been co-moderator of the group since 2009. I still use Gmail and Google Voice. Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners (NPSF) is a 6 year-old Google Group now with over 1700 members, averaging around 300 messages a month. Only requirement for membership is that you have a connection in some way to nonprofits using Salesforce.

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Post-PC and the new iPad: I get it now

Judi Sohn

Work email/calendar/tasks is on an Exchange server, personal email is on Gmail. Kid #1 got her 1st generation iPad in 2009 (still going strong). Is the iPad at the point that it can completely replace a laptop that is primarily used for communication, light work and entertainment? I’m going to find out. I backup data to iCloud.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?) High bandwidth to your home or office is a necessary requirement to cloud computing. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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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.