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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

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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. As a frugal, belt-watching nonprofit professional, it's not too hard to be skeptical of the latest ads and buzzwords.

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2011 NTC Preview: Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits

NTEN

Tim Arnold, Functional Consultant, Beaconfire Many thanks to the good people at NTEN for agreeing to let me stand up in front of a huge cheering crowd at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference to drop some serious science in my session, "Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits (or 'How to Party Like it's 2011 When it's Really Still 1999')."

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What is cloud computing? So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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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. How, then, should a nonprofit. As a frugal, belt-watching nonprofit professional, it's not too hard to be skeptical. Consult your. nonprofit professionals not to take their work home, or to access.

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! 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.

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Meet Michael Stein 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and Nonprofits on Oct. But in an email this morning pointing out my, gasp, mistake, I learned that there were two nonprofit technology consultants named Michael Stein! Can you describe your work in the nonprofit technology field? We also do consulting. and nonprofits? It's a common name. While Web 2.0

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