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• 29 July 2008

  How to Make Your Own Custom News Page 

  RSS is a very powerful technology , useful for anyone to gather and digest many information sources in one place — and even more useful for nonprofits to get their information out to their members and supporters. If you were to put all of your most important news sources onto a single web page, what a useful resource that could be! Remember when we mentioned the launch of Alltop.com , earlier this year? Alltop collects the most recent stories from the RSS feeds of selected sites, and shows the headlines Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:55 PM by Rebecca | 3 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Web 2.0, Google, Widgets, Non-profit Communications, websites, RSS, spreadsheets, tables

• 24 July 2008

  Next Generation File Sharing Comes Out of the Box 

  Online file sharing service Box.net made Webware’s list of the 100 best Web 2.0 applications for 2008 for three very good reasons. The award's not for its file storage capability, nor for the ability to access and share your stored files online — although it’s worth noting that Box.net just added iPhone access. It's not even for the user-friendly interface that feels comfortable from the moment you first sign in. What makes Box.net a winner is a powerful Web 2.0 trio... Read More... Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:58 PM by Rebecca | 1 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Web 2.0, Widgets, collaboration, websites, online storage

• 07 July 2008

  4 Ways to Put a PowerPoint Presentation on Your Web Site 

  If your organization makes PowerPoint slideshows for special events, meetings and conferences, you've probably put a lot of time and effort into creating each one. Why not get extra mileage from those PowerPoint presentations by putting them onto your website or blog for others to see? Here are four different ways to share PowerPoint files on the Web. Read More... Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 2:45 PM by Rebecca | 16 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Web 2.0, Widgets, Non-profit Communications, websites, Microsoft, open source, SWF, PowerPoint

• 24 April 2008

  Dilbert.com Goes Web 2.0  

  How would you define Web 2.0 ? Wikipedia does a pretty good job of explaining it, but why use words alone to explain such a complex idea, when you can show-and-tell? Try this: Flip open just about any North American newspaper to the comics page... then take a look at Dilbert.com . The companion website to Dilbert , Scott Adams' widely syndicated cartoon chronicle of office politics, has just relaunched in Web 2.0 style. And this is not simply a cosmetic change or a new website design -- the site Read More... Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:57 PM by Rebecca | 1 Comments Filed under: General News, nptech, Web 2.0, Best practices, online community, Widgets, case studies, websites, Accessibility