Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 23, 2006

Although oriented toward business blogs, the issues he tackles come up in non-profit blogging as well. I've a number of non-profit execs have told me they shy away from blogs because they fear people might use the on-line medium to make critical comments about their organization. What can you do when you're branded?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

some exciting new wave non-profits need to catch, or is it just a bunch of marketing hype? But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim O'Reilly will beg him to keynote. So let's beat that dead horse one more time. because Jeffrey Zeldman said it so well in his A List Apart blog last month.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Well, actually, no: -- it's not just hype, but it's equally true that there is really no earthshaking new technology involved. One key development - to me perhaps the most exciting - is an approach to web development called AJAX. This is just what Ajax means to change. That's Ajax as well. A further look.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

even as I evangelize among non-profits for the use of some of this newer technology. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

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. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. What’s to lose?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0, and I want to talk about that hype, and talk about the possible pitfalls of jumping on the Web 2.0 I’ll then talk about blogging, podcasting and vlogging, which I think are probably the most hyped, and potentially least useful for nonprofits to jump into without a lot of thought.

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