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51 Articles match "Google","New York"
The Latest from the Nonprofit Technology Community
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
The Real-Time Web and Its Future , a new report from ReadWriteWeb , focused on the changing ecosystem of the Web, one that runs in real-time. “For the following report, we interviewed 50 companies, developers and executives building or leveraging real-time Web technology. It means different things to different people, but the most literal meaning is probably this: real-time systems push information from a publisher to a subscriber (be they a human reader or a machine consuming information) as soon as it’s available, without the subscriber having to ask if there’s anything
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. free copies of Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel, required
reading use Google Forms, one of the tools I'll cover, to collect this information
Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter .
My job was the network weaver.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Some could tell us how many hits they expected on their new website (sometimes), but not what traffic source was driving donations. Others could tell us how many donors they needed to store in their new database, but not what the results of an email campaign had been. Take Google's AdWords grant program for instance. Jeremy Heffner, Avencia
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The Best from the Nonprofit Technology Community
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Launched today, Google Voice is the newest update to Grandcentral , a service I’ve used since near its inception . The tech press points out that Google Voice is a direct challenge to other established for-profit services such as eBay’s Skype, Vonage and Comcast . the past, I was responsible for handling the technical side of Community Voicemail for New York City. It generates a universal phone number that ties together various services such as all your other phone numbers, voicemail, VOIP, SMS and even your Gmail contacts . It’s seamless, it’s
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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Chris Brogan sent me a link to the new NpowerNY/Squido Handout on Seth's Blog. Yep, google analytics is great. Graphic in Flickr Source: Tara Hunt's post " Cross the Chasm "
It's call org.2.0! It signals to me that we are beginning to cross the chasm in Web2.0
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling.
So simple place to start is by using Google’s spreadsheet tools. With just a few clicks, your staff can transform their data tables into embeddable flash objects Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications
Policy-oriented Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
One of today's New York Times' headlines is, Economy Shed 598,000 Jobs in January . You should also subscribe to list servs like Progressive Exchange and YNPN (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network), and search on Google Groups and Yahoo Groups for list servs related to the work you want to do. If you can't afford to attend an event or conference, see if they'll let you volunteer in exchange for a reduced fee. Find Volunteer Opportunities Volunteering for Yikes! If you're one of the folks looking for a job with a nonprofit right now, here are some ways
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Saturday, September 22, 2007
Birdie Jaworksi birdiejaworski.com (New blog. Birdie's blogs and stories have been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Positive Thinking Magazine , and the Wall Street Journal as well as many other news outlets. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times . I'm giving a talk about blogging at the meeting of the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club tomorrow at the Book Passage in Corte Madera. I always like folks to be able to have an electronic handout, in addition to
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Some could tell us how many hits they expected on their new website (sometimes), but not what traffic source was driving donations. Others could tell us how many donors they needed to store in their new database, but not what the results of an email campaign had been. Take Google's AdWords grant program for instance. Jeremy Heffner, Avencia
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
An interesting article in today's New York Times called " Lost in E=Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast ." quot; The article describes how some technology firms, including Microsoft , Intel , Google and I.B.M. , The article describes a new nonprofit organization called " Information Overload Research Group ." Photo by Will Lion
are banding together to fight information email overload - by doing research on information coping skills - one of my favorite topics for the past ten years.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Google has an SMS service that lets you text in to GOOGLE and get back weather, directions, sports scores and more.
86 Chambers St, New York NY 10007","The closest Mobile Commons office is at 86 Chambers St, New York NY 10007"
"100 A couple years ago, Starbucks rolled out a popular SMS application. Users could text their zip code to MYSBUX and they would get back the closest Starbucks location.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Over the course of my trip to New York City this weekend, I realized exactly how valuable my iPhone is. went online on my iPhone, looked up the nearest 24 hour gym in their network, and copied and pasted the address into the Google Maps application. Google has done a great job by making all of their applications as iPhone friendly “ webapps ” which behave like iPhone applications.
The iPhone is inarguably the most advanced piece of technology in people’s hands these days. It has a GPS to tell you where you are.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. free copies of Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel, required
reading use Google Forms, one of the tools I'll cover, to collect this information
Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter .
My job was the network weaver.
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