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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.
- 03-27-2012 Bringing Desgin Patterns to Web UI. Responsive web design requires a very different way of thinking about layout that is both challenging and exciting. The art of layout was already complex enough for the centuries that it was defined by fixed elements, now things are becoming exponentially more complicated as layouts become increasingly adaptive.
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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.
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04-04-2012: Phillippe Kahn and the Future of Mobile
Philippe Kahn was known 25 years ago for creating software giant Borland
International out of thin air and a lightening fast Pascal compiler. Turbo
Pascal fueled a lot of early PC software development. But what's he up to
now?
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04-10-2012: HTML5 File Uploader with Drag and Drop!
Remember when those drag-and-drop file uploaders required flash or java
applets? With HTML5, they've become no big deal! Tutorial.
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05/31/2011 - Emerging Technology: Credit Cards with onboard computers.
These are traditional mag stripe creaitcards, but the onboard computer enables a
slew of new security and convenience features, such as hidden account
numbers, multi-account cards, and cards that can be turned on and off with
a pin code.
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06/01/2001 Social Media Strategies for Meeting Planning Professionals
Michelle Bruno offers a variety of ideas for the effective use of new media for
promoting and enhancing your face-to-face meetings.
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06/01/2011 - Five Technologies that will Shape the Web
IEEE Spectrum's take on how the web will change in the next several years - more
video, more mobile, and more inanimate appliances!
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06/03/2011 - Microsoft Preview of Window 8
This little video from the folks in Redmond shows the impact that smartphone and
tablet OS concepts have had on the designers at Microsoft. And hints that
web-app architectures are poised to replace the old idea of desktop
software.
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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.
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06/06/2011 - How the iPhone changed Smartphones forever.
An insightful piece by Dan Frommer in Business Insider that looks at the
half-dozen separate innovations, in the spheres of technology and business
model, that made the iPhone such a game changer.
- 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."
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06/23/2011 - Is Online Social Simulation Giving you Popcorn Brain?
This amusing little article from CNN is not the usual link fare here - but I
suspect it is true. When your first urge on seeing a gorgeous sunset is to
update your status, something's gone wrong. These researchers claim too much
online stimulation actually affects your neuronal structure.
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07/04/2011 - MIT's Sherry Turkle : Alone Together
Sherry Turkle on our relationships with machines and with each other. A very
worthwhile 20 minutes.
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07/21/2011 - NOSql Standouts
If you've been meaning to get your head around the NOSQL movement -- the
advocacy of non-relational data-stores for humongous data-sets -- here is a
great survey article from InfoWorld of some tools making a name for
themselves.
- 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."
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09/23/2011: How a spelling corrector works
This post by Google's director of research Peter Norvig is undated; I just
stumbled across it yesterday. It's a very nice explanation of how statistical
spelling correction, like that in Google's search engine, works. To illustrate,
he develops a complete spelling corrector in one page of Python code. A
bit more technical than our usual link fare - but if you are interested in
programming it's well worth the read.
- 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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10-18-2012: Fixing common problems that slow down USB connections.
Examines 9 of the most common problems relating to USB 2 and 3 connections and
how to remedy them.
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10-28-2012: Finally News you can Use - How to track a lost smartphone
Scientific American discusses ways to track down that missing iPhone or
Droid.
- 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.
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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.
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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."
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4/22/2010 - Diaspora: A reaction to Facebook Privacy Issues
Maybe you've been following the uproar in the past few weeks about privacy and
control over one's one material on Facebook. In reaction, a group of four NYU
students have been crowdsourcing investment to build a distributed, open-source
social networking site and have garnered a lot of press.
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5/01/2010 - Twitter Brand Do's and Don'ts
Everyone has heard that they should be promoting their org on Twitter - but what
is the best way to do that? This article from
Mashable can help the Twitter newbie use this tool to create a valuable
piece of online presence that promotes their organization's brand.
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5/01/2010: Conjouring Clouds - great overview of Cloud technology
This article from MIT's Technology Review provides a comprehensive introduction
to the technology breakthroughs that have made cloud computing possible - and
are pushing it on to new levels. Definitely worth the read if your organization
is trying to assess what role the Cloud might play in its future.
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5/05/2010 - City of San Francisco network turmoil lands SysAdmin in Jail
Creating a formal Information Security Policy may seem like just one more
bureaucratic exercise. But this news story, and consultant Peter Campbell's
commentary on it, make the business case loud and clear.
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5/18/2010 - 21 Rules for Social Media Engagement
We've talked before on this site about the importance of engaging rather than
just broadcasting if you want social media to work for your organization. In
this article Brian Solis looks in depth a what Social media Engagement really
means.
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8/01/2010 - What Google's Data Center Can Teach You
There is a lot that those of us responsible for keeping a rack full of servers
up and running can learn from the way Google thinks about its mega
installations.
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8/15/2010 - The Networked Non-Profit
This little book, by social media gurus Beth Kanter and Alison Fine, can help
you get your non-profit off the "we ought to be doing more with social media"
dime by helping you understand exactly how these new technologies can relate to,
and differ from, your existing marketing and development efforts. The the new
media have your staff or board somewhat stunned, this is must-read!
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8/25/2010 - Fire Protection and the Data Center: The Industry Standard You Didn’t Know About
Simple and commonsensical, the National Fire Protection Association's NFPA 75,
Standard for the Protection of Information Technology Equipment, is a
detailed, explanatory almost-checklist for how to keep your business
heart beating in case of a fire. While the standard was written for
large data centers its advice is applicable to smaller setups as well. This
article by Lisa Nadile will introduce you to another aspect of computer
security.
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9/01/2010 - Defending a New Domain
The Sept/Oct issue of Foreign Affairs has a piece by Deputy Secretary of
Defense William J. Lynn III on the threats facing critical US computer
infrastructure and the steps being taken to secure against those threats.
Foreign Affairs is published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a Members Only
user.
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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Leaving no stone unturned in the search for knowledge, Science published a study
searching for evidence of time travelers posting on Twitter and Facebook.
ANFSCD 1/4/2014
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Debunking Five Cloud Computing Myths
Paul Barsch takes on five common myths about "The Cloud".
Cloud 1/6/2014
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It's Time to Get over the BYOD Obsession
Galen Gruman argues that BYOD is not a new phoenomenon and it's time to IT
decisionmakers to stop talking about it the way they have been. The
proliferation of devices people want to bring into the workplace confront you
with exactly the same problems that laptops and jumpdrives did a few years
back - making and enforcing clear policies on security and compliance
BYOD 1/2/2014
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Putting a program in place to encourage strong password use
We see really weak passwords in use in so many locations - not to mention
software for routers, switches, and other critical devices left at their default
values. Lifehacker has some tips that may help you encourage your users to adopt
stronger passwords.
Lifehacker, 8/2017 -
Speech recognition - the unreachable frontier
Siri didn't realize you were asking her on a date? Don't feel too bad. James
McKendrick feels that usable speech recognition by computers is a long way
off.
Speech recognition. 1/3/2014
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The ABCs of Advanced Persistent threats.
The nature of malware has changed over the last several years. Today's insidious
infestations are known as Advanced Persistent Threats - persistent in that they
remain quietly in your network, compromising device after device. And the
"hacker" in charge may just be a government or an international criminal
organization.
Security 1/2/2014
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Windows 7 not yet totally eclipsed
If you are an IT manager of a Windows 7 shop feeling pressured that real
networks have Win10 on the desktops - relax. Windows 7 use remains strong, and
Windows 10 adoption slow. And Windows XP is still found on half of all
desktops!
ComputerWorld, 8/17 -
Winning the war on Ransomware
Credit card fraud used to be the main form of hacking that non-profit CEO's lost
sleep over. Now Ransomware is costing organizations real money. But there are
actions to take now.
CSOOnline 5/17