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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Roots by Ma.gnolia »

Roots connects you with the Ma.gnolia community as you browse the web. It’s an idea that’s profoundly simple: when you’re looking at a website, click the Roots bookmarklet and see what the Ma.gnolia community thinks of that site.

So this morning, I was lead to a new feature in the social bookmarking site, Ma.gnolia that I find both interesting and useful. The feature is called Roots and it’s essentially a javascript overlay for whatever site or article you are browsing on the web. The overlay provides you with community data from Ma.gnolia. Now the data is just from other Ma.gnolia users and not the web at large, but still if the page has been rated, you get a rating between 1 and 5, along with a count of users who have rated it (so you know its not a 5 based off a…

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

We are Twittering! »

What's Twittering? It's the minutia of day-to-day thoughts and activity at a nonprofit technology service organization. Yes, we've decided to add an official Nonprofit Tech Twitter account to the barrage of our de-centralized information. Interested?

If you already Twitter, you know it can be a great source stream of information. Some of it important, a lot just chatter. But fun chatter—unless its sad chatter. Our Twitter Page is:

http://twitter.com/nonprofit_tech/

But just like with Ma.gnolia, we've already integrated/centralized back to the Nonprofit Tech site, so you can also just visit us at:

http://www.nonprofit-tech.org/index.php/twitters/

So to summarize:

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Friday, February 22, 2008

The Skinny on 3 Recent Projects »

We’ve been very busy at Nonprofit Tech. Besides from our work lives, our personal lives have been filled with an array of happy, sad, tragic, ad time consuming events. But while we haven’t had the time to introduce our new project section to the site. We have been banging through far more projects than even we have realized. So I thought we’d take the time and do a quick, visual, introduction to three of them. As a disclaimer, for both our clients and our consultants, the following projects were selected at random. We do have newer projects, more ambitious projects, and definitely a number of noteworthy projects. Once we officially introduce the new ‘project’ section, you’ll get to see a more accurate timeline of projects, as well as write-ups, wireframes, notes, etc. We won’t cover every project, but we will make an effort to get most of them in. So…

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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Come See Our FaceBook Page! Become a Fan! »

We’ve finally done it. With FaceBook’s recent introduction of Pages, we’ve decided to jump into the Social Networking realm. What is Pages? and why have we jumped on the bandwagon? Two very excellent questions, so let me quickly explain.

First, FaceBook is one of the largest social networking sites around. With over 58 million active users, the site is a hotbed of activity. From interpersonal relationships to establishing brands, advocacy for causes, soliciting donations, and more. Myself and a number of Nonprofit Tech consultants are members of FaceBook, so it makes sense to have FaceBook be a stepping stone. But to really understand the logic behind it, you need the answer to the first question:

What is a Page?
This question is better phrased as, “What are Pages?”, but from our perspective both questions work well. A Page or Pages are a…

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Redesign in Progress »

We've been waylaid, we've been delayed. Yes, we are still working on a brand new site for Nonprofit Tech; but unfortunately client projects have interfered with our original deadlines. So...

We've put the site, with some of the old content back on-line. None of the sections are working yet, so we've made the navigation 'inactive' for now. We will start adding other sections one at a time, with our past projects being the first up. You get the first look at the new style—there are lighter colors, more white space, a new favicon, and more. Currently, we have a one week break in our schedule during August, so hopefully we will get more content transferred then.

Sorry for any inconvenience. But you can still call us at (608) 241-3616. Current clients can still access SMART Technical Support System.

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Friday, May 09, 2008

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Thursday, May 08, 2008

Survey: Affordable Office Equipment? »
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Co-Founder of Second Life Says Academics Are Biggest Trailblazers in Virtual Worlds »
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Research on Connections Between Computer Use and School Violence »
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Educause Survey Results: Top 10 IT Issues in Higher Education »
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