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This Tech Soup article caught my eye. It distingiushes the process of upgrading to Windows 7 with the two terms in-place upgrade and custom-install upgrade...

This blog incorporates a listing of 50 essential blogs for non-profit's to access. Innovation is a team sport.

This is a very disturbing truth about social media that you would think people are aware of , but are they?

If a nonprofit dabbles in web design this is more specific to design choice for the web creator but it was worth the inquiry for myself. Drupal has been proven to better the better choice for a larger organization that wants more features. Wordpress has held an advantage for the smaller startups for ease of use. There is a convergence between the two that is occurring but Drupal still maintains a lead. The problem with the more complex applications in a site is that it will require more maintenance which a very small nonprofit or company would seek to avoid. I generally consider it very difficult to maintain a mobile web solution and keep a good selection of applications running without some expert support. The old standard of a simple website appears to be waning quickly. The choice now appears to be how much work you want to pay your website manager to do rather than determining if you need one.

This article was good at showing the different ways blogging can inflict cost. You can choose the method which matches your flexibility to pay. $12000 annually will still be more than some can afford to pay. Carrying a full-time employee to manage the blog is the bulk of the cost so some may consider adding this as a responsibility to someone capable in the organization in the interim.

This article covers accounting in non-profits fairly comprehensively.

This article covers donor database implementation for a non-profit. Giftworks was endorsed for ease of use. Administrators are happier with a more customized solution when its possible. Microsoft Access was criticized because it seems less directed toward the non-profit sector. It was interesting to note that the competition for donor dollars is increasing. A highly integrated database clearly outperforms segmented data. The online database with a trained rep might be the best choice of all.

This article discusses why government is moving away from providing IT directly to its employees in exchange for identifying the proper services to empower employees. The government realizes that owning the equipment personally isn't paying off for them. This may be more true for the government than other sectors. The same changeover seems to be occurring in the nonprofit sector.

A promising report on a potential reduction in spam traffic. I'm very under impressed on any supposed actions to reduce spam so far. My opinion is that email boxes are exactly backwards because every company believes it is an imperative function. No, I believe every email should require a pre-authorization which big business will fight to the end.... This strikes me as politically motivated

New domain names are coming....

Third party fundraising makes contributing easier than ever. In the words of this article: "social media for social good."

This is the future phone generation for 2012 in the USA... This will probably have an immediate blunt impact on mobile web needs for nonprofits and profits

One option for nonprofit website design that may not exactly be the best choice. It could serve a supplemental purpose though as a technical resource.

Description of wordpress database capabilities

Debating social media devices and technology with politics