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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

note: This is the second in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. New applications and technologies. This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. if not free) technologies. Your new iPhone.

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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. So it's what's on my mind. But JSON hasn't helped us with the formatting issues.

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That Was The Year That Was

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

And what technologies are emerging to meet these needs? We've been making extensive use of SOAP and other XML-based webservice technologies to bring complex functionality like this to the web. I don't often see SOAP listed among the "emerging web technologies" discussed on non-profit tech sites, but it has definitely arrived.

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

A recent offering, for example, describes a method for building a tabbed notebook with CSS, and then using a simple Ajax-y technique to load each page of the notebook as it is opened with content laid out in another html file. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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Cake vs. Symfony

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 Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. I really liked cake. at 4:52 pm Wow.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. Life was good.

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