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We all know that new technology is the phenomena of economic sucession. in this article, it talked about how new technology incremental of the grouwth rate especially in U.S.A. for example Apple Computers and DEC, Hewlett- Packard.

This article shows how we are beginning to use social media in our everyday lifes. It isnt just youth but older people are now using social media sites more and more

This article articulates the reasons why custom databases are not the best option.... The author didn't leave much space to endorse the other side

Most nonprofit websites are still at the "before" stage of a makeover says this lover of make over shows. "It is therefore with great excitement that I get to unveil a highly successful makeover from Project Hope. They took their website from dull to dynamic, meeting all the important requirements of a great site."

In today's world, we live our lives on the internet. We communicate, learn, find loved ones, get our news and buy products all online. But, 90% of volunteering happens offline.  Traditional offline volunteering has a lot of hoops to jump through.

I can imagine how many people benefited from this free service.

Amazon launched it's Cloud Player and Cloud Drive service today, which lets you store files online and stream music to your computer or Android phone. We spent some time with it this morning, and despite some missing features, the service is an amazing value and pretty easy to use. Right off the bat, Amazon gives you 5 GB of free storage, which is already more than the free 2 GB Dropbox has.

With all these travesties continuing to occur in Japan there seems to be many ideas and techniques to help these disaster areas. This shows yet again the innovations of today's modern robots and their ability to help those in need when it may be unsafe for humans. This is a very interesting article as to how advancements in technology can continue to advance the efforts of governments and organizations to help victims of disasters.

This article talks about options for non-profit organization's databases, and how free software is not really free.

This article talks about how the efforts to raise money for Japan have been less urgent and have raised less money than during the Haiti earthquake.

More follow-up on useful links to help a nonprofit organization use social media. A lot of the time, for any agency, posting event invitations is the best bet in getting a response from "fans" of your organization

The Coachella music festival was broadcasted live through youtube last weekend, representing a momentous change in the collaboration of music and online tools. With few glitches and little advertising, the concert was broadcasted over three days through youtube where people got the chance to pick between the three stages to watch their favorite artists. Free and easy to access is becoming more and more prevalent everyday with online tools. The streaming video was viewed over four million times. Nonprofits that are concentrated on promoting and advocating the arts and music can look at this as an innovative way to connect to an audience.

This article shows how governmental agencies are using technology tools to help gather the taxes that people have failed to pay in the past. This technology tool analyzes the data that has been collected about an individual and uses that to compare the different ways of going about collecting the past due taxes. Using this analyzing tool allows the government to spend less resources trying to collect the taxes and also has proven to increase the amount of past taxes that are collected.

This can come in handy for in anyone who uses social media sites frequently.