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Why you should care that Oracle is buying Sun

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. Sun bought MySQL AB (the company behind MySQL) last year for $1 Billion dollars, and therefore, MySQL AB now becomes a part of Oracle, it’s primary competition. For us, it’s generally much more removed.

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born. Nat is also a private pilot, an ASA bareboat captain, SSI advanced diver, and keen surfer.

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Nonprofits Live: Great Presentations on August 26

Tech Soup

Bring your questions for this one-hour interactive event hosted online at TechSoup.org, and use #NPLive to connect on Twitter. Nat started with Oracle as a sales consultant in New Zealand where he was born. Nat is also a private pilot, an ASA bareboat captain, SSI advanced diver, and keen surfer.

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Increasing Social Influence to Drive Fundraising Efforts

NTEN

It would be unwise to provide access to an online community for the exchange of ideas, yet be unresponsive to questions. Organizations must implement tools to monitor and respond to questions and comments from the community both quickly and accurately.

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And that’s why it’s critical that all those young geeks have the best, geekiest time that ever they had because happy, fulfilled Campuseros translates into positive brand identification for Movistar, Microsoft, The Mexican government, Ibm, HP, Asus, Nokia, Motorola, Nec, Opera, Noiselab, Volaris, Cisco, Oracle, Zte.

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Cloud Is Not a Technology Decision

Tech Soup

Most have either focused on technology questions such as, "Is the cloud better technology than traditional models?" If the answers to these three questions are yes, yes and yes, then expect senior managers in not-for-profits to say yes to the cloud. This post originally appeared on Richard's blog. Does it do the job?

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These are a few of my favorite blogs

Connection Cafe

I think of the Sea Change posts as communications from the Oracle at Delphi - rich in meaning, posing more questions than answers, with the goal of getting you to think about the question in relation to your strategy, rather than spoon-feeding you the answers. I'll have to think about it, and I bet you will too.

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