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Top Nonprofit Blogs to Bookmark Today

The Modern Nonprofit

One of our favorite posts is about data hygiene (which can easily be a snooze to read about), but they take on the subject by creating a script for an old-school PSA. A nonprofit fundraiser since childhood, Beth has over 30 years as a professional fundraiser and consultant. NTEN CONNECT BLOG. BETH’S BLOG. FUTURE FUNDRAISING NOW.

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2011 NTC Preview: Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits

NTEN

Tim Arnold, Functional Consultant, Beaconfire Many thanks to the good people at NTEN for agreeing to let me stand up in front of a huge cheering crowd at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference to drop some serious science in my session, "Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits (or 'How to Party Like it's 2011 When it's Really Still 1999')."

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It’s my social graph, darn it!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. As a result, Scoble joined the group dataportability.org , which I’ve been monitoring for a few months now. Why did Scoble get booted (he has since been reinstated)?

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Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Right now, I’ve got AdBlock Plus, Greasemonkey (which is a scripting platform that allows for lots of other interesting addons,) Tor (allows for anonymous browsing,) a bunch of google toolbars, some great web developer tools, etc. It is certainly better and more secure than IE.

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Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, I’m trying out some new themes soon. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 M. at 8:50 am Thanks for the tip about AdBlock Plus. It’s brill — it gets rid of all the ads on Facebook. Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass.

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Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! There’s so much to learn about blogging, but I am improving but slowly, very slowly. Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10 Have you experienced the same?

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. It is also cross platform. Apache Derby – a DBMS written entirely in Java. This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?