Further, I find myself often in the situation of convening teams that include folks thrust in the position of managing software or web projects for the first time. Although you can't “clone� a project or have a project template, you can create todo list templates and these can really help frame standard approaches in your project streams.

I’m the guy responsible for its current position in the nptech tag stream mainly because I got tired of seeing Techsoup in the stream an umpteen number of times…) Paul makes a valid point that social networking is not for the typical nonprofit audience, i.e. don’t know how scalable this software is but it IS free.

Rank doesn't spare you; openly admitting that you can do anything well with computers is equivalent to lifetime membership in the tech support club. full time tech support job is, for the most part, an extended roller coaster ride with more down slopes than up. Every update is automatically emailed to the user and the tech.

Wish you had the latest version of that pricey software? You can discuss this webinar on Twitter with the hashtag #techsoup or join us for a live-stream of the event in Second Life. Tags: Acquiring Technology Event Online Seminar Tech Planning TechSoup Help Does your nonprofit or public library need better technology? Eastern).

In the realm of things in my life that this blog is meant to cover, I have two passions: data, and moving data around, and open source software. I’ll always be talking about open source software, particularly as it relates to web applications, but more generally as well. Tags: Nonprofit Tech nptech or this and that.

NetCommunity is moving nicely along and I believe that Kintera’s weakness and Convio’s small revenue stream plus Blackbaud’s continuing mindshare especially with those nonprofits that have yet to do eCRM means that that product will have to be given CRM consideration. 4) Yahoo! out of 5) Loading. How could you not? Yikes.

said in that post: At one level, whether or not the software underneath the SaaS is open source is not relevant. You are not obtaining the software, and whether or not you can see the code, or modify it, is really not the key issue here. And, at the level of most nonprofits choosing software, this is, in fact, correct.

In fact, the TIOBE site suggests the following: “From a supportability point of view, it is strongly advised to stick to mainstream languages for industrial, mission-critical software systems. That revenue stream would probably be hurt if third-party developers could get in on the action. 4) Yahoo! care labels. Be nice. No spam.

What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? Here's a few: She's Geeky , an unconference for women in technology, held a blog day on September 19th which generated many posts including a few from the nonprofit tech space ( here , here , and here ) Blog Action Day is October 15th.

Once youve registered online and picked from a selection of free widgets, the chumby displays a Flash stream ofwhatever youve configured - weather, news feeds, alarm clock, movies, pictures, stock tickers, etc. Embedded software developer Steele also delivered a bunch of back doors for the hardware hacker. Many tech. Or gray.