Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Convio has, seemingly, gotten some serious Web 2.0 The geek in me thinks the Convio APIs are wicked cool, since they allow you to do client programming via AJAX, as well as more standard server-based programming. Extensions are ways to connect the Convio app to other Web 2.0 Extensions also include the pantheon of Web 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

But as I've mentioned, I've been doing a good bit of coding these last couple weeks, updating an old web app we did for one of our clients. If you do some web programming but you haven't tried the new Ajax techniques in your Web projects yet, you can find some great examples that demystify the whole thing in Ajax Hacks , by Bruce Perry.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Drupal started out primarily as a web content development platform, with a strength in community features. Sites with deep integrations to CRM platforms and web services. has more than 15 years of experience in web application development using open source tools, and is knowledgeable about CRM/CMS integration issues.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. 3 TJ Sondermann 11.06.08 tjs 4 Ariel Arjona 11.20.08

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 23, 2006

The Semantic Web Just the other day I posted some information on Microformats for the first time. and Marnie Webb pointed us to Piggy Bank , a Fireflox plug-in from MIT that scrapes semantic content from web pages. I have a strong feeling The Semantic Web is a part of the Next Big Thing. What can you do when you're branded?

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NTEN

JANUARY 7, 2011

HTML5 is the latest in a long line of buzzwords -- Web 2.0, AJAX, SEO, B2B anyone -- around Web Design and Development. An HTML specification specifies what code we use to build web pages. The crowd will be huge, right? And cheering? HTML5 is merely the latest in a line of HTML specifications that started with HTML 1.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2006

I can't help wonder if this mounting bad PR played a role in Yahoo's announcement this week to release their Javascript user-interface library and a library of web application design patterns under an Open Source license. It's certainly big news. I can tell you the developers at my joint are eager to get a look at it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I started to do databases for organizations, and then, in 1999, I flew headlong into web application development, which became my specialty and mainstay until I took a break to go to seminary in 2005. I put in a few networks in the late ’90s (ugh, really, I pulled cable.) At first, I liked it a lot.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 10, 2006

Take a look: you'll find that the program has a nice, crisp responsiveness unusual in a web app, showing off the Google development team's expertise with Ajax. I agree - while Google released a very nice Ajax spreadsheet today, they didn't exactly change the world. Last week Google announced their new Spreadsheets offering.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 5, 2006

EDS fellow Charlie Bess, writing this week suggests the "Web 2.0" Tools like Ajax, RSS, XML he sees as "refinements" of innovations from the.com period. Most of the things I see listed as Web 2.0 Another developer critical of the millennial tone of web 2.0 Last month in a post called " Quit with the Web 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

We see that the trend to make more and more services available via the web has brought xml-based webservices and innovative web-development techniques to the fore. XML-based web services Probably the biggest trend we see is that organizations are trying to push more functionality out to members and supporters via the internet.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 30, 2006

Those of you who follow the current explosion of new web applications are probably well aware of Emily Chang's eHub site, which profiles new applications as she becomes aware of them. Max is Emily's partner in Ideacodes , their web consultancy and design firm. Max is Emily's partner in Ideacodes , their web consultancy and design firm.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2005

There are a few web-sites devoted to serving as portals to all these new apps. His most recent post describes an Ajax-based chatroom service you can add to your blog or website with just a few includes. Emily Change is an award-winning web developer, designer, and consultant based in San Francisco. Solution Watch. Techcrunch.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. Social and Collaborative Platforms - Social networks and Web 2.0 Web Platforms - Dynamic languages, databases, and Web servers.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

When I heard that TechSoup will be hosting an online about Web 2.0 Why are you interested in Web 2.0 While Web 2.0 Several people framed blogging as a negative -- that it would raise traffic to their web sites and increase bandwidth costs. and Nonprofits on Oct. and nonprofits? It makes you SO much more visible.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 2, 2006

Programming: Google has released the Google Web Toolkit , a programming framework for AJAX development that takes a very new approach to Javascript development. Policy: Susan Crawford has posted an illuminating discussion of why the net neutrality debate really matters and the very real dangers of caving in to the telcos on this issue.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2005

I'm struck by a disconnect between the advantages of the new web technologies and the business goals our users are striving to meet on the network. Here's what I mean: John Hagel in a post last week offered a tentative definition of web 2.0 As I've been reading the explosion of postings all over the net dedicated to "Web2.0"

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

They include Ajax , a home wireless security company; the AI-based grammar and writing engine Grammarly ; the face-swapping app Reface ; pet camera system Petcube ; People AI , the sales and marketing intelligence startup; and language tutor marketplace Preply. Many of them are helping and donating to help the county and its people.”.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

And while he is talking primiarily about commercial sites and metrics to determine ad dollars, he goes on to tell us more about why the pageview is dead: The page view does not offer a suitable way to measure the next generation of web sites. The widgetization of the web will only accelerate this. What about web site metrics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. Also, most of the audiences I'll be talking to are not web analytics geeks either, so will need a basic and condensed overview too. To understand why social media metrics are different from traditional web metrics.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

You know which dead horse I mean - is Web 2.0 But the fact that a product is built using a tool that has been associated with the web 2.0 But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim O'Reilly will beg him to keynote. So let's beat that dead horse one more time. That old debate.

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