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Great reads from around the web on November 16th

Amy Sample Ward

." Facebook Offers New Messaging Tool – NYTimes.com – "For more than two decades, e-mail has been the killer application of the Internet. But Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, says he believes that e-mail is antiquated.

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Tidbits

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 Tidbits June 11, 2008 The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest. You go girl!

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Do It Yourself: Quick Tech Tips and Fixes to Do in One Day

Tech Soup

Particularly important for smaller nonprofits and libraries, troubleshooting problems, maintaining your technology, learning new tech skills, and increasing the effectiveness of every day applications can help keep you ahead of the curve and help avoid problems down the road. mail and phone directories. DIY Software Learning Resources.

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Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There are tons of other add-ons for all of the Mozilla Suite applications. Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass. I’m trying out some new themes soon. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 M. at 8:50 am Thanks for the tip about AdBlock Plus. It’s brill — it gets rid of all the ads on Facebook.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As mentioned below, the most solidly supported functions are those related to mail.&# If you have an email list captured by one application, a donor list captured by another, a social network in another, and you give them all equal “weight,&# then you’re asking for trouble. 8 Judi Sohn 01.22.09 13 Eoin 06.25.09

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. http ://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/world/americas/21text.html?_r=

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Why My Mom Is My Fundraising Guru

NTEN

Flickr Photo: Mez Love You may have heard by now that we're raising money for scholarships to the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference.Last year was the first time we ran the campaign, and while we met our goal, it was a stretch, and we almost burnt ourselves out. Several 2010 donors have related how awesome they thought that was.