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• 01/27/2009: Top 20 Posts on Improving your Blog With the explosion in social media and the talk about how organizations can advance their mission via Twitter and Facebook, the Blog seems almost old-fashioned. Here are 20 posts by influential bloggers on how to make your organization's blog more effective.
• 03/19/2009 26 Charities and Non-profits who Tweet The news is suddenly full of references to the online service Twitter.  But a number of associations and other non-profits have already built this tool into their communication stratgey. Here's a survey of some of the leaders.
  
• 06/04/2009 Intuit embraces 3rd party developers New initiatives from the makers of the ever-more-popular QuickBooks suite make it simpler and more attractive for software developers to interact the accounting software.
  
• 06/18/2009: Nonprofit Groups Outpace Businesses in Adopting Social-Networking Tools From the Chronicle of Philanthropy, this article claims that non-profit organizations are adopting social networking tools as part of their marketing and development strategy more rapidly than than the for-profit business world. "A forthcoming study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research shows nonprofit groups are actually well ahead of businesses in their use of social-media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs."
• 07/27/2009 Mobile Giving: Donations by Phone Mobile Giving Foundation, a Bellevue,Washington -based nonprofit,  provides technology for charitable organizations to run mobile campaigns in which supporters can make a gift by simply text a short code word.
• 09/14/2008: Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know From Dion Hinchcliffe's blog: "The Web has become the single most important driving force in many fields of endeavor as well as the leading source of both innovation and potent new modes for communicating, collaborating, socializing, and working together. It's taken a few years but businesses are now feeling the change in the air."
• 09/26/2008: Five Things You Didn't Know Javascript Could Do This funky interpreted language is slowly getting street credit for having a very expressive syntax that when combined with a good client side API, can give developers what they need to build highly interactive sites. Without further ado, here's some cool JavaScript features, some of these are only just now available to .NET v3.0/v3.5 languages
• 1/02/10: Industry Trends: Browser market share over the last 8 years This is a subject always of interest to organizations concerned about their web presence. But the reason we're sharing this is that the way the information is displayed is so fascinating.
  
• 1/06/10: IT Heresey from InfoWorld InfoWorld blogger Galen Grumman challenges IT orthodoxy with 5 new directions for the new decade, including advising IT to let their users bring in any computer they want and hook it up at work. Its all possible now in the world of virtualized desktops and web-based apps.
  
• 1/16/10: Using Subqueries with Pervasive SQL IF you're one of those power users who has gotten comfortable issuing direct queries against the Members Only database from the Pervasive Control Center, now its time to learn about subqueries.
  
• 10/02/2008: Think You're Multitasking? Think Again Technology professionals often pride themselves on their abilities to multitask. But studies show that we frequently overestimate our ability to handle multiple tasks or information streams. This piece from NPR might help you regain your focus.
• 10/10/2008: 9 Steps to Prioritize Nonprofit Social Media Training and Experimentation Techsoup's Britt Bravo asks "What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology planning?"
• 10/17/2008: How a recession can undermine your fundraising program and what you can do to combat it This article from the Non-Profit Times looks at the relationships between the overall economy and the various components of non-profit fundraising. Thanks to Amy Kincaid of "Fundraising Breakthroughs" for pointing this out.
• 12/05/2008: The Mysteries of the Email Open-Rate People are always asking us about tracking email open rates. A friend just alerted us to a posting from a few months ago on the Beaconfire Consulting blog that gives a very good explanation of how popular software calaculates the "open rate" and why it really does not tell you what you    think it does.
• 2/15/10: Moving to Windows 7? Still using IE6? Our friend Esther Schindler is an expert on the issues facing companies finally leaving Windows XP behind and taking the step to Windows 7. In this piece she talks about the importance of testing all your software for compatibility, especially custom apps -- and about facing the fact that you will finally be forced to leave behind IE6 -- and any web apps that require it.
  
• 2/24/2010: 13 Ways to Move your Facebook Fans to Action Perhaps you have a Facebook Fan Page and even some fans.  But now what?  How can you encourage your fans to act and interact? Food for thought if you want to make your Facebook Fan page a real part of your organization's social marketing.
  
• 3/09/10 - High Speed Cisco Routers promise faster video delivery. Cisco Systems, has announced the launch of a super-fast and efficiency-focused router technology which will be at the heart of "the next generation of the Internet". A key impetus for its development is keeping pace with the growing demand for video, which Cisco calls today's "killer app."
• 3/10/2010 - Should Social Media Gurus Know their Tech? Jollie O'Dell warns of the dangers of working with non-technical social media consultants who  "couldn't distinguish a line of code from a badly punctuated haiku."