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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. and work on work files from a home computer. This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] . New applications and technologies.

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J is for javascript.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

If you do some web programming but you haven't tried the new Ajax techniques in your Web projects yet, you can find some great examples that demystify the whole thing in Ajax Hacks , by Bruce Perry. And the file is very easy for a human to read. But JSON hasn't helped us with the formatting issues.

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Those of you who follow the current explosion of new web applications are probably well aware of Emily Chang's eHub site, which profiles new applications as she becomes aware of them. But while I've known about eHub for a long time, somehow I was oblivious to Max Kiesler's mHub site. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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That Was The Year That Was

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I don't often see SOAP listed among the "emerging web technologies" discussed on non-profit tech sites, but it has definitely arrived. So we've just started developing an Ajax -based web calendar that can take its information from a variety of different sources, and allow authorized users to edit the calendars over the web.

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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. We have a history and culture and expectation for objective web site measurement.

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