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Los Alamos National Laboratory is a non-profit organization that is breaking the mold for science and engineering students. Textbooks simply cannot cover every topic relevant towards academic studies and have troubles with outdated information within a couple of years. LANL has allowed students to have monthly video chats with researchers discussing new topics and breakthroughs in science. This develops a fresh, interactive way to grasp material instead of burying your head in the boring, conventional textbook.

Live streaming technology helped the Raptor Resource Project, a non-profit organization, share a live feed of the birth of three bald eagles. The picture is said to be so clear that you can see the eggs crack before the the eagle really hatches. While waiting for the eggs to hatch the camera feed was switched to infrared view during the night for viewers to be able to witness the birth.

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

Great organization with a very specific and important mission.

This article shows non-profits how to build a website step by step, as well as how to get donations set up.

Making applications for your phone and benefiting non-profit organizations.

Great resource for info on NP stats

The development of national trade union policy on local government privatization is discussed. This national policy is subject to local variations which a rei llustratedb y the caseso f two contrastinglo cala uthoritiesi,n Wandsworth and Newcastl.

A local non-profit awards Houston students with computers to help with education. Comp-U-Dot takes donations in the form of computers and refurbishes them, later giving them away to students. If it weren't for these refurbished computers these students would not have word processing, spreadsheet, or internet capabilities.

This is a great blog for nonprofits to keep up with. Katya does a great job addressing different marketing issues pertaining specifically to nonprofits.

"Chinese Hackers Bring Down Change.org in Response to Ai Weiwei Campaign. Chinese government-sponsored hackers took down Change.org with a DDoS campaign after the site registered over 100,000 signatories on a petition in favor of the imprisoned Chinese artist. Ai Weiwei had been known for his role in the construction of the Beijing Olympic stadium and as China's leading digital activist and a pioneer in the use of blogging and Twitter in China."

Clarification - the description is an excerpt beginning with the 4th paragraph of the article. Not my words. "My problem is that for as long as I have tried to figure out, Dropbox made some bold claims about how your files were encrypted and how nobody had access to them, with statements like: All transmission of file data occurs over an encrypted channel (SSL). All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES-256) Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files, and when troubleshooting an account they only have access to file metadata (filenames, file sizes, etc., not the file contents)."

this is a rather interesting article that could prove to be very helpful to non profits. It will be interesting to see where this technology goes in the future.

By Amy Potthast, Director, Service and Graduate Programs at Idealist "As a non-techie, I think I can safely say that a hiring nonprofit's current staff may have so little technical knowledge, they don't even know what skills are needed to do a job they want done. This lack of clarity on the employer's part can translate into some confusion and challenges on your part when you apply for a nonprofit job. I chatted with my colleagues on Idealist's web team for pointers to pass along."