Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 23, 2006

Programming If you're a web developer eager to get your feet wet with the new Ajax techniques but not sure where to start, take a look at Ajax Hacks , by Bruce W. And now for something completely different I wonder what Nick Carr thinks about the cultural impact of this new technology ?

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

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. But pretty soon find yourself lying in bed at night wondering about the best format to use to feed data to the web page.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

Of course technology is developing rapidly and there are new tools and techniques you'd be a fool not to explore -- in fact there are quite a few I will urge you to take a look at. But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim O'Reilly will beg him to keynote. You know which dead horse I mean - is Web 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

There are a few web-sites devoted to serving as portals to all these new apps. This site was created by 19 year old Brian Benzinger, a student at Gibbs College in Norwalk Ct. The site profiles new applications that Brian has reviewed and deemed worthy to pass on to this readers. Solution Watch.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

I'm struck by a disconnect between the advantages of the new web technologies and the business goals our users are striving to meet on the network. Allowing the use of your key business applications from multiple sites. As I've been reading the explosion of postings all over the net dedicated to "Web2.0" If not, how can web2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 2, 2006

You can also find it on Britt's Blogher site. Programming: Google has released the Google Web Toolkit , a programming framework for AJAX development that takes a very new approach to Javascript development. Rebecca points out that idling vehicles is the Number One cause of air pollution in urban areas! Cut that engine!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

But in an email this morning pointing out my, gasp, mistake, I learned that there were two nonprofit technology consultants named Michael Stein! Can you describe your work in the nonprofit technology field? Was I the only person on this planet who didn't know there two Michael Steins in the nonprofit technology field?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

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. The log files captured lots of data that gave us a lot "measurable" information about what people were doing on web sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

While it's not the only way to measure the health of a site (time spent and unique users are among the others), it's still very popular. 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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Writing a series I think gives me the space and time to think about particular technology issues in way more detail than I can in one post, and Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 I think Web 2.0,

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