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2011 NTC Preview: Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits

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AJAX, SEO, B2B anyone -- around Web Design and Development. And that's the real question, isn't it? The crowd will be huge, right? And cheering? HTML5 is the latest in a long line of buzzwords -- Web 2.0, We’ll focus on these new tags in March and discuss how to use them, when to use them, and when we can start using them.

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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. means to reach out and ask those nagging questions you’ve been meaning. This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] . New applications and technologies. are being developed at a rapid pace. Recognize the.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

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uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. Aardvark is a question and answer service that determines what topics you know about and who your friends are, then lets you ask the service questions.

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That Was The Year That Was

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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. I see Ajax emerging as a very important tool that will help both non-profits and businesses build more responsive and active public websites.

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" " The question awoke my inner research geek (a long time ago I worked as a research analyst and focus group moderator).

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, the networking was good, but the best part was the opportunity to ask Jeremiah a few clarifying questions to his face! These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader. What can we adjust?

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