Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Email is dead … long live Email?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. Reports of the death of email are, of course rampant, for the past, oh, 10 years or so. More recently, facebook and twitter were considered likely candidates for killing it off.

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It basically eliminates comment spam, which, as you probably know, is the bane of bloggers everywhere. .&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. It’s not really mine, and I don’t like that. Privacy Suck: Not so long ago, there was a little hiccup in Web 2.0 goodiness.