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The Surge of "Software as a Service" and OnDemand technologies

NetWits

Forward thinking traditional software vendors such as Oracle and Blackbaud have invested in technologies to deploy their solutions over the web by providing hosting services, often called “OnDemand” services, while retaining the ability to offer full-featured, customizable, and data rich solutions. Now, that's accessibility!!

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

Rik ( @rikomatic ) has over 15 years of experience as a nonprofit organizer and educator using digital media to increase public engagement on important global issues, from the International Criminal Court to Internet Governance to the Millenium Development Goals. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born.

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

Rik ( @rikomatic ) has over 15 years of experience as a nonprofit organizer and educator using digital media to increase public engagement on important global issues, from the International Criminal Court to Internet Governance to the Millenium Development Goals. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Facebook is credited with starting and fueling the development of social network applications. The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications. There are multiple standards that must be supported to launch your application on MySpace and other social networks so far.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Application developers are going to go to where the heat is, and that heat is red hot at Facebook But longer term, this may change. What is Openness?