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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy. Changes in the application happen without your knowledge or consent.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m someone who has, since day one, tried my damnedest (and succeeded 96% of the time) to only say by email, or put up, what I would say in a room full of people. Maybe it’s time to go back to being a curmudgeon. { I happen to be someone who has had a relatively high online presence since before the web (remember Usenet?)

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1stfans: An Audience-Specific Membership Program at the Brooklyn Museum

Museum 2.0

We announced 1stfans on December 5, 2008, and since then have had 272 1stfans from 15 states and 9 countries on 4 continents. Everyone gets fixated on this, but we’re just using it to address a problem. Shelley: The signup process is manual which is both good (we get to know people) and bad (time consuming).

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

I know my co-workers cringed and ran every time another email from me began with "Try this." Focus on solving problems, not adapting to solutions. Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. Didn't happen.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

I know my co-workers cringed and ran every time another email from me began with "Try this." Focus on solving problems, not adapting to solutions. Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. Didn't happen.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." " and that it's "time to comeup with some new rules of engagement - ones that work for us as well as them." It was covered by C|NET news.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Want to earn some money in your spare time by ferrying food or riders around town? Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online. Want to share your extra room with a traveler and make a few bucks?

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