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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. and work on work files from a home computer. story on how a new technology worked or didn't Share it with us in the comments. This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] . if not free) technologies.

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Cake vs. Symfony

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. at 11:56 pm { 8 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Joe 11.06.08 Example: Author hasMany Comments, Author hasMany Article.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites. How many people comment on posts? What is your post to comment ratio? Life was good.

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