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WordPress vs. Drupal … fight!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Drupal started out primarily as a web content development platform, with a strength in community features. Community Blogs. Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Simple brochureware websites.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies. While the community's viewpoint may not be aligned with yours, you will find information to form your own, more informed, opinion.

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WordPress vs Drupal. Fight!

NTEN

Drupal started out primarily as a web content development platform, with a strength in community features. Community Blogs. Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Simple brochureware websites.

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Friday Links: June 23

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The three most commonly offered bits of advice were, unsurprisingly: Post regularly, build a community, and read other blogs. Programming If you're a web developer eager to get your feet wet with the new Ajax techniques but not sure where to start, take a look at Ajax Hacks , by Bruce W. Do they all say the same thing?

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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. using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site. While the community’s viewpoint. This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] . New applications and technologies. if not free) technologies.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming. Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0

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Another view of this 2.0 thing

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. techniques like Ajax access data more dynamically, the real paradigm change in his book will be when browser "pull" is replaced by push technologies. Communities sites don't mean anything if they aren't sustainable. So what does Charlie want?

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