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Forum One at Privacy Camp 09
Following Ari, would-be topic facilitators stepped up to suggest a session they wanted to facilitate. Once the sessions were confirmed, an announcement went out and attendees flocked to a board to see the events of the day. Below are some of the sessions my workmate, Brian Verhoeven and I attended: Digital Signage If you have seen the movie Minority Report , then you may be familiar with some of the innovations in play that can use facial recognition software to match a person?
Influence
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009
10 Disruptive Technologies You Need to Think About
When all your desktop users are working in a virtualized environment, supporting your staff becomes a whole different ballgame. Now, patches, upgrades, and other tweaks happen in one place. And no more downloading terrible software and kludging up your machines.... The US may not be far behind. This isn't likely to trickle down to the little guys, but it could impact larger organizations.
NTEN
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Affirmative Action for Open Source Applications
I love the tenants of open source software. What's not to like about software that's open to customization or modification, and (typically) costs nothing to download? And I fully support anyone's right to advocate for open source - there's certainly plenty of room to provide education and support to nonprofits, and to lobby organizations that publish information (yes, like Idealware) to balance out vendor's lobbying influence.
Idealware
- Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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Portable Apps: Free Software on a (USB) Stick
If you work at times on different computers, carrying a USB loaded with free portable software can save you time and help to ensure security - there's no need to download and install the software you need or to risk your data on someone else’s hard drive....( read more )
...Tags: Non-profit technology nptech open source software.
Wild Apricot Blog
- Thursday, June 25, 2009
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Free Data Recovery Software to Undelete Lost Files
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...Tags: Non-profit technology nptech office open source software.
Wild Apricot Blog
- Friday, May 8, 2009
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How to Demonstrate Software
I am a strong advocate for spending the time directly with software vendor sales and technical support to explore software tools. Most software offers many more features than you expect, and have unique approaches to solving data management challenges. Often its largely on the basis of the demonstration that many of us will make a final selection of software for our needs.
Idealware
- Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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Beyond Spreadsheets: Give reporting its due in software planning
At a 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference session on tech planning, a speaker commented that a good technique is to just walk around and see what users are actually using at their desk, regardless of the organization’s prioritized software systems. Yup, that struck a chord.... Here’s some thoughts. In software planning and selection, tie every feature discussion back to reporting. Reporting today is not just neat formatted lists and labels. It’s also spreadsheets, mailmerge, email list sync, mobile and beyond.
Idealware
- Thursday, May 28, 2009
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My Top 16 tools of 2008
4. Songbird . Songbird is a brillant idea: build a music player using the Mozilla framework. Songbird was a buggy mess just a year ago, but with the recent release of 1.0, it’s absolutely an application to get to know.
5. CiviCRM . Oh what a difference a year or so makes. CiviCRM continues to mature, and is providing an interesting and important new model for nonprofit software development.... Stay tuned.
8. MAMP . Wanna set up a easy development environment on your Macintosh without struggling with Fink or MacPorts? Use MAMP. Easy, fast, robust, and powerful.
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Membership Management Software and CRM
One is simplification the business process. Minimize the number of different member types. Use a uniform billing process across all your members. Simplify the algorithm for computing dues. Eliminate programs that support tiny numbers of members. The other is simplification of the software. Don't require the system to handle cases that are really exceptions affecting very few members.
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More RSS Tools: Using Google Reader for Research and Sharing
This is a publish as you find approach that incorporates sharing and communication into the research process. Next week, I'll finish up the "More RSS Tools" series with a post about OPML, the way that you make your collection of feeds portable.
...Tags: software content management Google websites rss Communication.
Idealware
- Monday, March 30, 2009
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Software Bricklaying?
Every now and then you see an article about how - real soon now - the art of crafting software will be radically de-skilled. They've been appearing for ten years or more -- in the early days, it was going to be because of components.... Now its because of webservices and SOA (service-oriented architectures). Relatively unskilled developers will just mashup a bunch of enterprise services and -voila! - mission critical software applications.
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Software for Collaboration
Everyone suddenly wants to collaborate! For some reason (I suspect it's related to the economy, though I haven't pinned down exactly how) my phone is ringing off the hook these days with people who want to talk about how software can help teams collaborate.
Idealware
- Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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The permanent Beta?
In the Creating Passionate Users piece, Kathy Sierra talks about the short-release trend as a "cultural" one. She's focusing on the youthful subscribers to the Myspace website, her model of the rapid release project. So she focuses on factors relating to youth culture. What she does not dwell on is that Myspace is fundementally different from business software - it is not critical to most users' bottom lines. Let's look at this "cultural" difference among the staff of non-profit organizations using our Members Only software.
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