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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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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies. Take advantage of free information. New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace.

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Buzzword Buzz

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

One key development - to me perhaps the most exciting - is an approach to web development called AJAX. Your turn is over until the server informs the browser your order is being processed. This is just what Ajax means to change. But Ajax makes it easy to bring familiar desktop behaviors like this to the Browser.

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. It will include visioning and planning, evaluation and training. it was what I enjoyed most, and it was what I thought I was best at. It just wasn’t happening very well.

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" traffic is an important metric to evaluate a blog. These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader. Are blog metrics all about traffic? " What about out-bound and in-bound links?

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. 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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