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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies. For hardware, the time that differentiates what is "new" and "passé" is becoming shortened.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. is becoming old faster; your familiarity of the popular social networking. This one comes to you from Kevin Lo of Techsoup Global. ] . New applications and technologies. if not free) technologies.

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CommunityOne West and JavaOne: Free Event in San Francisco for Open Source Developers and Other Techies for Good

NTEN

Enjoy three jam-packed days on a breadth of topics, including languages (Java™, PHP, Groovy, AJAX, Ruby, Python), operating systems (OpenSolaris™, Linux, Android), Web and application servers (GlassFish™, Apache), databases (MySQL™), and services. Social and Collaborative Platforms - Social networks and Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Group News | LinkedIn

AFP Blog

Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Group News | LinkedIn: "New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace. This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies."

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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Also, APIs are great, but you still have to prioritize.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. It includes presence information (your avatar glows green if you're online) and chat while doing things like watching YouTube or Netflix videos.

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader. Yet another paradigm shift, emerging field, and something else to research.

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