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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You are dependent on your internet connection – which could be a problem for mission-critical applications. As the limitations of both AJAX and Flash are overcome (and as both develop further) expect even more usability for online applications. Changes in the application happen without your knowledge or consent.

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Bread and Butter 2.0

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I think this is the reason I instinctively identified Ajax as someting my users would care about, and why I've not been as vocal about tagging or social bookmarking, for example. Why can't you just send her a doc like you did last week?" And probably your executive director doesn't want to either. I've tried.

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Meet Michael Stein 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Even if an organization could benefit from these tools to solve a priority problem, there is an education effort needed. Everyone knows the nuisance of emailing around a doc and then having to collate everyone's edits. There are a number of discrete pieces that make up Web2.0., I was at YMCA of the USA Technology conference this week.

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