Communicating with the Web

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10 Free powerful Content Management Systems

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:37:00 +0000

10 Free powerful Content Management Systems: "10 Free powerful Content Management Systems

from Antonio Lupetti's blog Woork via awsamuel in twitter post

Content Management Systems help web developers create, manage and publish quickly blogs, portal or social collaboration websites. Probably you know the most popular CMS tools such as WordPress, Movable Type, Joomla!, Mambo but there are a lot of similar CMS tools for all needs.

This list suggest you some interesting alternatives you have to try. Please add a link if you want to suggest a CMS tool not included in this list."

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Hashcash FAQ

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:47:00 +0000

Hashcash FAQ

Great article!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:37:00 +0000

@2 back from Dark Knight eahh! Okay but I could have waited until the rental

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:48:00 +0000

Just up and trying ping some more

New article: Better Organization through Document Management Systems

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:43:00 +0000

from Idealware by laura
We've just put up another great article by Peter Campbell, this one summarizing the world of Document Management Systems: Better Organization through Document Management Systems. If you're looking to improve your organization's ability to find, version, and effectively use documents, a DMS can help you out - but too few organizations know anything at all about this area. I know I learned a lot from the article!

How to Test Your Site on Different Screen Resolutions, Browsers and Systems

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:47:00 +0000

I've seen services like this before; this one looks pretty good.

"How to Test Your Site on Different Screen Resolutions, Browsers and Systems

The cruel fact of website customization, is that websites can look very different to visitors depending on settings they are using.

Everyone’s who’s ever customized their blog theme would know the sinking feeling of viewing it through another browser and realizing that the layout doesn’t really look quite right."

>>full article

the fundit - Blog Archive

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:26:00 +0000

Read the following post from "the fundit" and then ask yourself "Who has access to my website and email; and do I know what to do if something goes awry with my relationship with them?"

"LOLcats and fundraising: two worlds collide online I’m one of those people who spends way too much time looking at cute pictures of cats online. If the picture has a silly caption, so much the better. But would the worlds of LOLcats and fundraising ever collide?

Yes. Thanks to Stuart Bright, the originator of a serious donor relations problem for the Hervey Foundation for Cats, an Alberta charity for abandoned or injured cats. Bright recently pleaded guilty to charges of sending defamatory letters to 600 donors to the cat charity. From the Edmonton Sun:"
>> full article

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Connie Bensen's Networking 101

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:04:00 +0000

Beth Kanter writes about Connie Bensen's Networking 101 and I would agree that there is line between the networking skills of the individual and the networking resources of the organization. I wonder if social network sites merely give the illusion of networking.

"Connie Bensen's Networking 101

I know many nonprofits that have embraced social networking sites look at networking from an organizational or campaign perspective. But, I wonder where the line is between the individual and the organization. I still believe that an individual's networking skills can be valuable to the organization. (I'm still reflecting on Carie Lewis's success). I'm struggling with this now as part of an article I'm writing (and rewriting, and rewriting) Connie Bensen has boiled some the essence of networking on social networks.

#1. Meet people as people first.

#2. Provide resources & help others.

#3. Lead yourself forward. Jeremiah O calls it paying yourself forward.

#4. Engage in partnerships & collaborations

#5. Interweave & connect with others & reflect on your network

Connie asks if we agree or have more points to add."

from Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Networking

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:50:00 +0000

I have been using Facebook to link to friends and some colleagues, I am also trying to get this blog to post to my Facebook notes, not clear if this is a success or not.

I was also trying to use Now Public to do a "post once appear many" that worked a bit the trouble is finding blog posts that will serve in more than one place. There will be more on this later.

Future of Media Video: Google Takes Over the World by 2050

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:31:00 +0000

Ran across this in the Read/WriteWeb blog

Written by Richard MacManus / June 14, 2007 / 23 comments
Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media. It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses at how the Web and media will evolve over the next 40-50 years. In the short movie, Google, Amazon.com and Second Life are the big winners - with Google buying Microsoft, Amazon buying Yahoo, and Second Life becoming the dominant virtual world.

The core future media concept is the Agav - an Agent-Avatar, which "finds information, people, places in the virtual worlds". Here's where it gets interesting. In 2022 Google launches Prometeus, the Agav standard interface, and Amazon creates 'Place' - a company that replicates reality. Then in 2027 Second Life evolves into 'Spirit', where people can become who they want to, via avatars. And then finally, the 'Google overloads' moment - when Prometeus buys Place and Spirit! By 2050 virtual life is the world's biggest market and Google/Prometeus reigns supreme.

Of course it may turn out different, but the video does make you think about where the Web is headed. Check it out...

Source: readwriteweb.com

This reminds me of an earlier video "Epic 2015", that covers similar territory, I commented there that "I came across this a couple of years back and I've
never been able to tell if this is the end of the world or the
beginning, complete fascism or absolute freedom." and I'd have to say feelings have not chnaged.

NowPublic

Library clips :: Roundup : Googol Deskbar, WP-Offline, Click Comments, blogTV, Vyew :: June :: 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:35:00 +0000

Library clips :: Roundup : Googol Deskbar, WP-Offline, Click Comments, blogTV, Vyew :: June :: 2007"
June 13, 2007
Roundup : Googol Deskbar, WP-Offline, Click Comments, blogTV, Vyew
Filed under: tools, roundup

Nice roundup of tools and gadgets for Np-Tech

Google could be Facebook…and more on networks and communities

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:55:00 +0000

Google could be Facebook…and more on networks and communities

from Library clips by Johnt

There’s a lot of talk about networks and communities, I posted on blog communties or networks not long ago…Collaboration Loop has a comparison.
As often put networks are individual centric, whereas communities are a place, have a main topic, agenda, set members, moderated and they die out if members are not putting in effort.

Whereas networks are self evolving, may not be intentional (they can be parts making up a whole without perhaps even knowing their involvment), and they may de-evolve of no consequence.

Anyway, my post on Facebook got me thinking the way they incorprate communities and networks into the one ecosystem, whereas Google is scattered.

For instance Google have a startpage, they have a social network, and they have communities or groups.

These are all separate products and they still can be, but there could be an option to intergrate them like Facebook.

Notice that Facebook is a startpage or personal dashboard, and it’s also a social network as you can message and add friends (share stuff, keep updated), and you can also slice smaller networks by defining a region or a company or a school…you could come up with sub-networks by filtering on any piece of common data or parameter. Notice how this is still an individual centric network, no-one may even notice they are part of the “Australia” network, not knowing their profile and content is appearing under the Australia Network page.

Then they have groups around any topic, these you know about as you have to join, members and visitors take part in discussions, etc…without member or visitor input these groups or communities become ghost towns.

Whereas this doesn’t happen with a network, there is no trail left behind if a network fades away…in saying that if all the Australian Facebook people stopped using Facebook then there would be no Australia network and there would be dead profiles (that didn’t sound good, but you know what I mean).

Basically the network (the whole) only fades away as individuals (the parts) stop using their profile, so as long as people get personal benefit and thrive, you can see many networks depending on how you slice the data.

Anyway this post was more about personal dashboards, groups and networks being intertwined in the same ecosystem…hmmm, only thing missing is task collaboration, ala Foldera.

Source: libraryclips.blogsome.com

full article >>

NowPublic

Whether you live in Facebook or email, that is the question?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:43:00 +0000

Whether you live in Facebook or email, that is the question?
Filed under: tools

Facebook has become the new kid on the block for me already, first it was blogging, then it was bookmarking, then it was the tweeting darling, and now I’m knee deep into Facebook…infact now I can do most of everything in Facebook, it’s my social network and productivity dashboard.

Source: libraryclips.blogsome.com

full article>>

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Tags: Email | become | Technology | facebook

Communicating with the Web

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:04:00 +0000

NeoOffice & OpenOffice

via Google Reader: "May 5, 2007

Just what we need for the mixed environment office that wants to be fully open source.

"A followup to yesterday's post: NeoOffice is a FREE, fully-featured set
of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet,
presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. "

full article>>

NowPublic

NeoOffice & OpenOffice

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:47:00 +0000

via Google Reader: "May 5, 2007

Just what we need for the mixed environment office that wants to be fully open source.

"A followup to yesterday's post: NeoOffice is a FREE, fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. "

full article>>

(from Jayne Blog (Volunteerism, Nonprofit Tech, etc.)

"free or cheap web-based organizing and collaboration tools,"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:07:00 +0000

On her blog Technology for the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Deborah Elizabeth Finn has posted her handouts for a workshop that she and her co-presenter Arthur Prokosch gave recently.

I highly recommend downloading them.

Resource Roundup 4/24 from Idealware by laura

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:11:00 +0000

Another great list from Idealware. I'm just going to put up a couple here. You can read the full article here.

Seven Ways to Get the Most Out of the Web on a Budget (ClickZ)
A practical look at the technology and marketing strategy decisions that will help small organizations get the most value out of the internet.

Free Tools for Small Organizations (World's Touch)
A long and interesting list of free tools that might be useful to organizations, although without much context for them.

Resource Roundup 4/10 from Idealware by laura

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:23:00 +0000

via Google Reader (100+): "4:02 PM (54 minutes ago)

Another excellent round up of resouorces from Idealware by laura

MobileActive Guide #3 Released: Mobile Phones in Fundraising Campaigns(NTEN)
Continuing the MobileActive Series, a new guide on using mobile phones for fundraising.

Plone Online Training: Short Plone Overview (TechNW)
Based on the demand for our Joomla/ Drupal/ Plone overview workshop, understanding content management systems is a big need, which means that a number of you may be interested in TechNW's very reasonably priced Plone Online Training.

Managing Pictures in SharePoint (Gavin's Digital Diner)
Gavin Clabaugh lays out his process for building a Digital Asset Management system to manage photographs in SharePoint (Microsoft's intranet and collaboration tool)- an interesting piece both for those interested in DAM and in SharePoint.

Knowledge Management: Finding Quick Wins and Long Term Value (How To Save the World)
Dave Pollard lays out some very useful suggestions about what systems and processes can do to help organizational Knowledge Management in the short and long term.

Online Community through Email Lists (Beaconfire)
Great overview of how to create community using listserves - an old school but still very relevant technology - as well as how to apply these lessons to more new-fangled approaches

Software To Convert RSS Feeds Into Published Web Pages - A Mini-Guide (Kollabora)
Another in the great Kollabora mini-guide series - this one on software tools that will help you publish content from RSS feeds on your website.

Use of Web 2.0 Tools about an UK Educational Audience (TALL Blog)
Results of a very interesting survey, looking at the use of specific Web 2.0 tools and communications methods among those looking at Oxford continuing education classes.

What is Windows Vista? (ICT Hub Knowledgebase)
A great overview of what does, the differences in the various versions that are available, and what it means to you.

How to Create a Pre-filtered Mash-up of RSS feeds (Journalism.co.uk)
Step-by-step walkthrough of how to put together a RSS aggregator based on complex criteria using Yahoo Pipes

Put that in Your Pipe and Search It (NTEN)
NTEN offers an aggregator of NPTech blog posts, news, and the like, using Yahoo Pipes

A Strategy for Using Email Lists (ONE/Northwest)
Another great, practical resource from ONE/NW - this one with an overview of four ways that every organization should be using email lists.

Varieties of Membership Management (Michael Stein's Nonprofit Tech Blog)
Quick but insightful look at two fairly different types of "membership management" and the processes that go along with them.

NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:03:00 +0000

via Google Reader (100+): "Apr 8, 2007 (17 hours ago)

NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0
from Zen and the art of Nonprofit Technology by Pearlbear

As I write this, I'm hurtling through small towns and big cities on the train home. We've passed through Baltimore - which reminds me of a project I did once, way back when, to work with a group of mostly small and medium-sized organizations on technology planning. In those days, the buzzwords were 'internet connectivity,' 'networks,' 'websites,' and 'email.' This was in the solidly web 1.0 world where many organizations still weren't even networked, still used dial-up internet connections, and had websites written in the earliest version of Front Page, or were done by the CFO's nephew.

I've emerged from this week's frenzy of buzzwords like 'blogging,' 'open API,' 'e-advocacy,' 'municipal wireless' and 'social networking' not surprised at how much things have changed, really, but how much they have stayed exactly the same."

full article>>

A very insightful article, well worth the read.

What do you know about Webinars?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:07:00 +0000

Janet Freeman asked me what I knew about webinars, here is my reply:

From Wikipedia

A webinar is a type of web conference, although the direction of the presentation more often than not is primarily one way from the presenter to the audience as in a Webcast, which is transmission of information in one direction only, like watching a concert on the internet. A webinar however can be designed to be interactive between the presenter and audience. A webinar is 'live' in the sense that information is conveyed according to an agenda, with a starting and ending time. In most cases, the presenter may speak over a standard telephone line, pointing out information being presented on screen, and the audience can respond over their own telephones, preferably a speakerphone. The word 'webinar' is a portmanteau combining the words web and seminar.

From Idealware: "Wednesday, March 28, 2007

New Idealware Article: An Introduction to Screencasting
We have another great feature article this month, from the incomparable Beth Kanter. As many of you likely know, Beth has been doing a number of screencasts of late – for instance, on Tagging and on Widgets. These screencasts show video of her screen, along with her voice, as a way to demonstrate complex computer tasks or processes. She’s been learning a lot, and as Beth is prone to do, she’s written an article to share those learnings with the rest of us.

Her article, An Introduction to Screencasting, covers a lot of ground: the many purposes with which screencasts can help, how to go about planning and “filming” your screencast, posting and distributing it, and the software that can help in all of it."

And from:

Knowplace.ca a site and community dedicated to using Moodle to build on-line learning.

"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities."

That's what I know.

What do you know?

Revisiting Old Ground from Idealware by laura

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:11:00 +0000

via Google Reader (100+):

Two excellent articles from Idealware.

Revisiting Old Ground
from Idealware by laura

We’ve now done our first round of updates to old articles – we’ve updated our A Few Good Email Newsletter Tools and A Few Good Low-Cost Databases articles. Both were completely reviewed and have new tools, considerations and more.

full article >>

Resource Roundup 3/14 from Idealware by laura

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:33:00 +0000

via Google Reader (100+):

What non-profits must learn to do and do well.

"The Basics of Email Marketing for Nonprofits (Convio)
A solid overview of the basics of email marketing, from building a list to creating effective emails to keeping them out of spam filters, with only a limited amount of marketing-ese for Convio, an integrated online software package."

You will need to register and login to the Convio site.

Google Reader (100+)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:05:00 +0000

Google Reader (100+): "Bruce Sterling's Talk at SXSW

from MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken

Bruce Sterling's talk at SXSW is described on the landing page as a 'rant'. It isn't. What it is is a survey from 10,000 feet at what's happening in culture and technology and on the web, and I reckon it's worth spending the hour of your life it'll take to listen to it. I hope you agree. [mp3, 59 minutes]"

This is a great talk not a rant at all, Sterling's discussion of the third world of "common space, peer creation" is of particular interest to non-profits.

Moving Non-Profit Technical Information List to Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:22:00 +0000

I've decided to move the Non-Profit Technical Information List to Blogger.