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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. 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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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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