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JUNE 21, 2010

You can also see what I’ve been reading by looking at my shared items on my google profile. Google Font Directory – directory of available fonts from Google. Force.com for Google App Engine. Again, a little peak at what I’ve been up to, reading, and thinking about. Small Business CRM | BatchBook.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

If you want to put your book into formats that the widest variety of people will be able to read, think about these two important factors: Distribution avenues : Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google and Apple, would be the ones I’d focus on, as well as whatever other avenues you want to use to get your electronic files out there.

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DECEMBER 7, 2008

Google Friend Connect has been around for a few months, but they just opened it up to everyone last week. Google Friend Connect is a toolset based on three standards, two of which are open, one of which could probably be considered an open standard, but it originated with Google: OpenID , OAuth and OpenSocial.

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JULY 25, 2011

And I’ll be Google+ing (rather than Tweeting, which is mostly for my writing , or Facebooking, which is friends/family) interesting Tech and NPTech topics as they come along and are discussed. And when Google+ stops being relevant, I’ll find the next thing that comes along to share links and ideas and discuss.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). Reading RSS feeds or Google News. So, for Lent, from February 22, through April 8th, I won't be: Reading or posting on Facebook. Blogging or reading Blogs. Watching TV or movies on my laptop/computer/tablet/phone/etc. (no no Rachel Maddow, sniff, sniff).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The cost required to either pay software makers, or recreate everything needed from scratch would have made something like the cloud, or a Google, so expensive as to be impossible. Even if you wanted to, you couldn’t download your own copy of Google Apps to run on your desktop.

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APRIL 12, 2011

And, like all consultants, workflow involves documents and spreadsheets, and for that I mostly use LibreOffice , although sometimes using Google Docs makes sense for collaboration. I use Google Reader for RSS feeds, and TweetDeck , or, more recently, HootSuite for Twitter (I really like the tabbed interface of HootSuite.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

What’s true is that I’ve given up one corporate behemoth, to fully embrace 2 others – Google and Microsoft. resides in Google’s data centers. I use their software every day (Chrome, Picasa, Google Earth). A scary amount of my data (mail, contacts, photos, task lists, calendars, phone etc.)

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

Google addons , including the toolbar, and Google notebook add on (although I’m beginning to use Evernote more, because I have a copy of notes both on my desktop and online.). Web Developer - a nice toolbar, also useful for development. Fire.fm - I’m in love with both Pandora and Last.fm. It’s a nice integration.

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MARCH 7, 2010

multi-mechanize – Project Hosting on Google. List of Nonprofit, NPO, NGO Websites Using Drupal » The ENGINE Blog » ENGINE Industries: Atlanta, Georgia Web Design. AboutUseCaseMaps < UCM < Foswiki. Online Backup from Backblaze. Data Robotics, Inc. EC2StartersGuide – Community Ubuntu Documentation.

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MARCH 6, 2011

I was looking at my Google Analytics report for this blog, and came across an interesting thing. The browser share of those visiting my site, and the North America browser share from Statcounter.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

And from that link, you can see that Google acquired the company behind it, so some of that technology has made it into Google apps – but you can still get the EtherPad code.). It works best for larger groups, but it’s a pretty amazing tool. There are some hosted versions you can try out. (And

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Reading or posting on any other social network (Twitter, Google+, Diaspora, etc.). Reading RSS feeds or Google News. So, for Lent, from February 22, through April 8th, I won't be: Reading or posting on Facebook. Blogging or reading Blogs. Watching TV or movies on my laptop/computer/tablet/phone/etc. (no no Rachel Maddow, sniff, sniff).

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APRIL 16, 2010

Are they free because the company behind them is an ad revenue machine and uber profitable (Google)? But if you are going to bet the farm, make sure you know what the risks are. Using free services is fine, but know why they are free. Is it free because it’s open source (Drupal, Elgg, Word Press)?

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JUNE 2, 2009

Take a peek at Google Wave. As you can tell, I haven’t had much time to blog lately. Here are some great links I’ve come across that I thought were worth sharing: Get the NTEN IT Staffing and Spending Report. Good stuff! This is a great preview of some really fascinating technology.

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JUNE 2, 2009

Take a peek at Google Wave. As you can tell, I haven’t had much time to blog lately. Here are some great links I’ve come across that I thought were worth sharing: Get the NTEN IT Staffing and Spending Report. Good stuff! This is a great preview of some really fascinating technology.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We are creating whole new infrastructures that didn’t exist before (think Facebook, Google, etc.) Just Google it. But it also means that we can use lighter clients. Will the move to, for instance, tablet and phone computing be a net positive or negative benefit in terms of resource consumption? Green Hosting.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Thanks to the generosity of Google, we’re delighted to grant fee waivers to anyone who needs one! CiviCRM vs Salesforce.com: What Are the Differences? Mobile Volunteering: The ExtraOrdinaries Project. Creative Commons And Open Content. And many more… You can register at Penguinday.org. I look forward to seeing folks there.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Chromium , is the open source project which results in the browser Chrome – but there are a bunch of additions Google makes to Chrome which are proprietary, and not in the Chromium codebase. So what do I mean when I say Chrome is “sort of an open source browser&# ?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days. Contrast that with Google Code’s sweet Subversion-integrated wiki. He asks : “Will the world notice a diminished Sourceforge?

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JULY 2, 2009

We also have been using Google spreadsheets for some elements of project management. Basecamp seems to be a standard that many people have reached for. We were using Intervals for a while, which is really a fabulous tool if you do a lot of hourly consulting. All tools have their strengths and weaknesses.

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JULY 2, 2009

We also have been using Google spreadsheets for some elements of project management. Basecamp seems to be a standard that many people have reached for. We were using Intervals for a while, which is really a fabulous tool if you do a lot of hourly consulting. All tools have their strengths and weaknesses.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

It blocks banner ads, Google adsense ads, stupid dancing aliens for mortgages, etc. The other Firefox extension that I use a lot is Google Toolbar. It’s great to have easy Google tools at my fingertips. This is the best thing since sliced bread. I love it. Plus, pages load faster without ads.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Google docs will take a good long time to make it to the point where the functionality begins to match either MS Office or OOo/LO, so OOo/LO is a very good alternative to MS Office if you don’t need MS Access, and have folks able and willing to make a small adjustment to use this tool.

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DECEMBER 26, 2008

6) Google Analytics vs. Sitemeter. The proprietary consolidation of the CRM/Donation management system space continues apace. 5) The Search for Good Web Conferencing. An exploration of options with my own particular requirements in mind. Wow, this post is from 2006. 7) Getting Naked: Being Human and Transparent.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Sunday afternoon: Torn between Drupal for Good and Google APIs (somehow, there seems a lesson there.). You can email me, @pearbear on twitter, or give me a text message or call … if you know my cell, that is. :-). Sunday morning: NTEN Board meeting. Sunday evening: Science Fair and reception. I can’t wait!

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends. One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. These are using data in your own databases, and grabbing maps from google maps and putting them inside your application.

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JANUARY 8, 2008

Thanks to twitter (hat tip to marshallk ), I learned about today’s big news: Google, Plaxo and Facebook joined the Data Portability working group.

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APRIL 18, 2007

Google is a little vague about the fact that when you invite someone to a spreadsheet they’ll need a Google Account. That gets super confusing when you (I) have a google account (Moraving) and don’t use it for anything (eg, mail sent to moraving@gmail.com will never get to me because I never look at it.),

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

It can handle quite the long list of chat protocols: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC , SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM (Instant Messenger) client. A number of these I’ve never heard of.

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JUNE 19, 2008

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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AUGUST 11, 2008

That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs.

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

Google pays the hosting costs, you get easily embeddable video that can be viral, and you can drive traffic from YouTube to your site. If that video is more popular than you expected, you may end up paying for it, both literally and figuratively. What about putting it somewhere else? YouTube is the easy answer.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

RSS readers, google alerts and blogs are so key to my existence these days! Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis. 2 Jack 08.07.08

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy.

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MARCH 12, 2007

tools , i-Lighter and Google Notebooks for managing online notes and such. I’m a fan of Google Notebook myself, but I’ve never heard of i-Lighter – I’ll have to check it out. Michelle Martin , over at The Bamboo Project Blog, talks about two cool web 2.0

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