Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

Its a hidden gem that helps you do almost anything on your computeradd to your calendar, list tasks, search files, do math, or control appswithout touching your mouse. Find files, tabs, and web results instantly Find exactly what you need in seconds, without having to dig through folders. Search within applications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web. Nonprofits can use it to study past versions of their website and to monitor their progress in web design over time. Websites & Email. RiteTag :: ritetag.com.

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

YouTube is the second most used search engine in the world. Knowing that a good portion of your supporters already participate on the social Web, and with the continued growth and popularity of social media, it’s very likely your nonprofit organization is focused on figuring out how to best utilize sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Google Grant provides $10,000 each month to nonprofits to spend on Google Search ads. If they have valuable content that will spark engagement or if they provide pertinent information that people search for, they will likely get a lot of value out of the Google Grants. So what are Google Ad Grants ?

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Tableau

MAY 13, 2021

When you want to explore, create, and share data visualizations, we're happy to share that you can start creating vizzes directly from a browser on Tableau Public with the web authoring beta. Like in Tableau Desktop, with web authoring you can connect to data in a variety of formats. Next, click Create Extract. Now, make some charts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Google, DuckDuckGo and other search engines help you find information from the web. Needl is a cross-platform application that lets you search across your local file system and accounts like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack. You can filter these results by files, messages, events, tasks and emails.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 11, 2009

Robyn installed WP on my existing web host ( dotable.com ). Once WP was running on my web host I could upload a new theme and instantly see what it would look like. Robyn also installed, or pointed me to, widgets that added new features, like the search box and a plug-in that pulls my blog posts from TechSoup into my site.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. A chatbot with web access is a risky prospect, as OpenAI’s own research has found. They also aren’t necessarily representative of the totality of the web.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The vast majority of these documents do not have full-text transcriptions or indexed data, making them difficult to search and largely inaccessible to historians, students, scholars, and the general public. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the apps and tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. Web & Email Content. The number of low-cost or free apps and online tools available to nonprofits today is astounding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

WordPress powers 34% of all sites on the web and is one of the most popular digital marketing tools used by organizations in the world. Enable Media Replace – easily replace an image or file without having to delete, rename, and re-upload to the Media Library. SEO and Social Sharing. Events, Fundraising and Donations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

There’s a growing appetite for alternative search engines. In 2020, Socher co-founded You , a search engine that uses AI to understand search queries, rank the results and parse the queries into different languages (including programming languages). It seems there’s some truth to his words.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Provided you set aside the time to explore and experiment, your nonprofit can use the tools listed below to significantly improve your web and email communications and your social media campaigns. BlueHost is w low-cost web and email hosting company with excellent customer service and free SSL Certificates. Social Media.

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Forum One

JUNE 15, 2021

In our recent webinar and blog post , we explained Google’s Core Web Vitals, how they’ll soon impact your search rankings, and the meaning of the new terms Google has introduced as part of this update. Typically, moving from JPEG to WebP reduces file sizes by 15 to 25% with equivalent quality. What you should do next.

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The Verge

JULY 20, 2021

One of the more useful inclusions is a new file conversion feature, which lets Dropbox users convert images between different formats like JPEG and PNG, and files into PDFs. The web interface’s details pane has also been redesigned. The details pane is also being overhauled to offer more details on your files at a glance.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Neeva , an ad-free search engine launched last year by a former engineer and executive best known for spearheading Google’s advertising tech business , is about to land in Europe. The Mountain View, California-based company officially launched a subscription-only search engine in its domestic U.S. Search mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. Wufoo allows individuals and brands to easily create web forms through a simple drag and drop interface.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Next month, I will be heading to TOC a couple of days early in order to participate in a W3C Workshop on eBooks and the Open Web Platform, where I will be talking about Social DRM (Digital Rights Management). In almost all of those cases, the ebooks still have the name of our user in plain text in the file.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2012

The Web is vast and the chances of you coming across content that you want to pin is quite high. If you’re a Chrome user, Pin It and Pin Search are handy plugins and if you’re a Firefox uer, Pinterest Right Click is all you need. Click this and download the HTML verification file, making a note of the code at the end of the file.

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

Recent court cases have found that if charges are filed against a nonprofit for not being accessible, they can be required to bring their site up to par from an accessibility standpoint. Minimizes the loss of web visitors due to those users’ inability to interact with the web content.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

Elsewhere, Google is also removing some old web technology in Chrome 88. The File Transport Protocol (FTP) is officially disabled with this latest version, removing support for a protocol that has been used for decades to send files across the web. Chrome’s new tab search feature. ?.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

NIM microservices support a range of AI applications, including large language models ( LLMs ), vision language models, image generation, speech processing, retrieval-augmented generation ( RAG )-based search, PDF extraction and computer vision. Developers can even submit plug-ins to NVIDIA for review and potential inclusion.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

If AI could only help me with one thing, search engine optimization or SEO, would be at the top of my list. Up Your SEO Advantage “Ranking high in the search process can be a significant challenge,” Amy advised. After Bard responds, the files can be deleted. Yet, if you are a wizard with keywords, your audience will hear you.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Robots Exclusion Protocol is a web standard used to control and manage web crawler and bot access to websites. Defined by the robots.txt file, it tells search engines which parts of a site can be crawled or indexed, helping webmasters protect sensitive content and manage traffic efficiently. However, it.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Image from Unsplash Building a Semantic Book Search: Scale an Embedding Pipeline with Apache Spark and AWS EMR Serverless Using OpenAI’s Clip model to support natural language search on a collection of 70k book covers In a previous post I did a little PoC to see if I could use OpenAI’s Clip model to build a semantic book search.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Dynamic Grid LWC In the Nimble AMS Winter ‘24 release, you can look forward to a new Lightning Web Component (LWC) with a flexible framework to create robust point-and-click solutions. In Search Manager, configure searchable standard and custom objects, and capture search storage insights.

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Byte Technology

JULY 21, 2016

In layman’s terms it’s an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file designed to store and transport data that lists the URLs (Universal Resource Locators) for a particular site and allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL, such as when it was last updated, how often in changes and its relationship to other URLs within the site.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Also, some of Candid’s Funding Information Network locations provide free databases that allow you to research individual donors’ giving history, such as Marquis Who’s Who on the Web and DonorSearch. Private foundations, including private corporate foundations, must publicly disclose all of their grants in their annual tax filings.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Glean , for example, puts cutting-edge AI search capabilities in the hands of employees so that they can tap into various apps and platforms to find documents and corporate intelligence. offers a web app that enterprises use to monitor how their brand name is portrayed in social media posts, videos, links, and memes.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a creative marketplace connecting mobile and Web projects with vetted, handpicked developers and designers from around the world. A few years ago, I worked at a Web design agency as a product manager. Remove all files from your desktop daily. I was mentally exhausted.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Searching “Windows Defender” in the Start menu will bring up Windows Security, and even now, Microsoft often refers to its actual antivirus scanning as Windows Defender. To open it, you can simply type “Windows Security” into the Start menu search. It’s called Windows Security. of threats ). Keep Windows security up to date.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

We embed the user's name in the downloaded ebook file, both explicitly ("This book was downloaded by Jim Fruchterman") as well as hiding the same information invisibly inside the main body of the book. Search the Web for illegal copies of Bookshare books. Work directly with publishers and authors.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

At the bottom is an actual download link — clicking on it will get you the torrent, letting you download a file called “preview.jpg” which shows off a bunch of Bored Ape images, as well as zip files that supposedly contain all the NFTs from the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. That is, to put it mildly, a lot of image files.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If you’ve updated your PC from Windows 10 to Windows 11, you may have noticed that when you click on a link for a website, a PDF document, or a variety of other file types, you will now be sent to Microsoft’s Edge browser. You’ll see a list of browser-related files, and under each file name, the app with which it is currently associated.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Around the web in today’s day and age, clones of popular global sites and businesses are everywhere, and the trend doesn’t seem to show any signs of fading away. Filing an intellectual property lawsuit when your company is copied isn’t easy, since business ideas and business methods usually can’t be patented.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

Now, the FBI has taken advantage of this by using those same web shells / backdoors to remotely delete themselves, an operation that the agency is calling a success. You can read the unsealed search and seizure warrant and application right here. It’s doing all this with the full approval of a Texas court, according to the agency.

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