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This is site that non-profits can join and access different technologies that would help the organization reach its goals. TechSoup is the name of the organization that runs this and it has many partners that donate these different forms of technology. This technology is availiable to all nonprofits that qualify. check it out.

Social media presentations collection showing how social media can be used to advance the mission of a nonprofit organization..

Twitter can have an impact and this article outlines the ways

This article emphasizes the need for a nonprofit to get excellent functionality out of a website and worry about looks second. The website is critical in importance before social networking can even be considered. The IT assets of a nonprofit should be built in a definite order.

This post is an article linking to a series that outlines the building of IT assets in a nonprofit organization

A staring point on setting up an email campaign in concert with a website. It is quickly apparent how many things are connected to and or dependent on a successful website in a successful nonprofit. Email marketing can be done without a website but it is going to have more value in conjunction with the website definitely.

Article giving 7 tips on how non profits can use mobile phones to their advantage and gain donations. A good follow-up on class discussion of bar code scanning...

This is just a useful tool for any nonprofit that can go in their blog, website

Probably not what you would need if you operated a LP3 instead of a typical nonprofit but very portable useful tool that your web designer would probably find anyway

This article is for nonprofits with little servers. With Windows 2003 or presumably 2007 you can administer servers far away from work. This is something anyone would want because it may be free in most cases.

I can't think of anyone that was administrating a server that wouldn't want to do this

This article covers a major issue in net neutrality, an argument that will ultimately come down to the courts deciding whether the government can legitimately intervene in private business. The appeal from Verizon that challenges the recent adoption of net neutrality by the FCC was certainly expected. Either private businesses will win their appeal for less government regulation or our government will really begin to regulate service providers.

Organization who can validate  501(c)3 status of nonprofits.

I posted an article last week about opposition to whether or not social media makes an impact in countries that find themselves in situations like Egypt's. This article, however, tends to thing Twitter can actually have an effect.

One of the largest App websites available, it is now reaching out to non profits so they can get information on which apps would help at their organization.

Another blog donated specifically to non-profits (mostly small ones), where employees and leaders of these organizations can connect, spread messages, and troubleshoot.

"In an effort to crack down on child pornography, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the seizure of 10 domains as a part of a new initiative called "Operation Protect Our Children" but they also shut down 84,000 seemingly innocent sites in the process."   A clear example of how attempting to exercise government control over the Internet in the United States on a even a small scale can present problems that were not the intent of the US gov. officials & decision makers!!!!!

The GVSU "Johnson Center for Philanthropy" has a posterous account one can subscribe to follow.

I like this article because it has applications to things like oil pipelines. Whenever I hear of a leak in a pipeline I wonder why technology fails to automate a relatively quick solution. If there is a proper array of monitoring devices responses can and should be automated to provide a rapid response beyond a simple call for help...

Using new technology poses problems for nonprofits such as limited budgets and financial restirictions. To help these nonprofits companies like JCA design and manage computer systems to help nonprofts become more efficient so they can accomplish their goals.