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Questions to Ask During the RFP Process

Whole Whale

What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with? What changes will you be able to make to the site without their aid, or that of another designer? What changes will you be able to make to the site without their aid, or that of another designer?

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Economically, open looks better than closed

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economy by copyright industries amounts to $1.3

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. But hopefully that will change. { You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. So I’m on identi.ca now ( follow pearlbear ). you can have private groups.

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The Ultimate Checklist to Choose a Web Vendor

Care2

What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with? What changes will you be able to make to the site without their aid, or that of another designer? What changes will you be able to make to the site without their aid, or that of another designer?

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I’m going to watch this pretty carefully. issue as they see it. Uck.They still don’t get it.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix. the work of copyright holders. I'm nervous. Step 9: Wiki Wiki.

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Tools Galore in Online Communications - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, dont feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use social networking or something else.