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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. Many organizations may not have capacity for one person to be the sole blogger and many times the way into an organizational blog is a team of writers. I think it means nothing. He outlines what each group can learn from one another.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. The API is SOAP. apps out there. gods: Flickr, RSS, Google, etc.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.)

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. 2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Wonder if smashups are eligible?)

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Top 4 Picks for Free Office Suite Software

Wild Apricot

If you're running any kind of organization, a suite of office software is essential — at the very least, you need a fairly good word-processing program, a spreadsheet application, and some sort of presentation software. read more )

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The Best Productivity Tools (Part 2): Favorites Revealed

Tech Soup

We also showed how organizations can tackle the process of finding the tech that helps the most when you don't necessarily have the time to research. NetSquared London co-organizer Kate White of Superhighways also put together an e-link list of all the tools that were mentioned in the show-and-tell section. Open-Source Tools.

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