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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. of free information. what is marketing and what is actionable information, use all the free. information that is available. may not be aligned with yours, you will find information to form your.

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Friday Links: June 23

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I've a number of non-profit execs have told me they shy away from blogs because they fear people might use the on-line medium to make critical comments about their organization. The Semantic Web Just the other day I posted some information on Microformats for the first time.

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4 Nerdiest Upcoming Convio Features

Connection Cafe

Anyone who has ever written an AJAX application will likely agree that while it makes sense from a security perspective, the "same origin policy" is the root of all evil. If you want to learn more about CORS and Access-Control-Allow-Origin, the Mozilla Developer Network has an article with lots of useful information. Oh, memories.

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It was really hard to try and write new applications building on a framework I’d written a while ago, while simultaneously improving that framework, and keeping up with new things such as Ajax and RSS, mostly by myself. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07

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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Its basically about storing and retrieving information. If youve ever kept a list of information in Excel, you will be relieved to know that under the hood, even the most sophisticated database contains tables that look exactly like a simple list in Excel - with rows and columns of data. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Don't get distracted by the data you may or may not have, but look at more than one source of data (both quantitative and qualitative), look at trends and always link information to decision-making. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites.

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Going on with the traffic metaphor, there was a comment that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe." " This comment got me thinking RSS subscription behavior and will do a seperate post on this.

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