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RIP: del.icio.us

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to PC World , Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. I met Joshua Schacter in 2005 at the Berkman Center and heard him speak shortly before delicious was acquired by Yahoo.

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Fail Fast Or Win Big

Eric Jacobsen Blog

He draws on his work with many talented entrepreneurs (the founders of Yahoo! He was also involved in the initial branding and marketing launches for Amazon, ESPN Online, Travelocity, and Yahoo! and Amazon included), and presents a proven expedient route to start-up success.

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How to make a site relaunch checklist

Whole Whale

When updating the DNS, which is the process in which servers tell the internet where new website living, there is a period in which the site will alternate between the new and old site. On another note, i f you are relaunching a website, plan to launch on a day with the least traffic. Check for crawl errors.

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RIP Google Reader: Don’t Scream Who Moved My Cheese, Pivot Your Reading

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. Nonprofit technology colleague Nancy Schwartz shared that link and it prompted a lot of angst for many who had grown dependent on this free software.

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Nonprofit Growing Pains. Dealing with Change.

Care2

Yahoo faced a similar panic among Delicious users when the news leaked that Delicious would be closing and Yahoo lost its chance to explain the transition and where the service was heading to users on it’s own terms.

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Most Popular Leadership Posts So Far This Year

Eric Jacobsen Blog

He draws on his work with many talented entrepreneurs (the founder of Yahoo! He was also involved in the initial branding and marketing launches for Amazon, ESPN Online, Travelocity, and Yahoo! and Amazon included), and presents a proven expedient route to start-up success.

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Nonprofits, Companies, and White House Unite on Tech Gap

Tech Soup

Twitter's technical staff was only 10 percent women, and Facebook and Yahoo's was at 15 percent. Year Up isn't a replacement or cure-all for this issue, but it is an alternative source of talent. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : 80 percent of employees were Caucasian at the tech companies it examined.