Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

11 Reasons Why Amazon MP3 is Better than iTunes

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Now that the Amazon MP3 Store has music available from all the four major record labels, I can think of no reason I'll be using the iTunes Music Store ever again. While I'm always open to listen to a well-researched rebuttal, I think this one is difficult to argue. Even ...

Play Podcasts Directly with Google Reader

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

The recent availability of NPR's "Fresh Air" sent me searching for an easy way to play podcasts in my browser. Sure, I could use Odeo or the Gmail MP3 player, but podcasts are just RSS feeds, so why not use my feed reader of choice? Enter Google ...

The Pros (and a few cons) of Using e-Newsletters

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

This is part two of a four part series written to help your non-profit organization deliver your newsletter electronically. In part one I outlined a couple of the reasons non-profits cite for not going electronic and gave my thoughts on why those reasons are full of holes. In ...

Your Promotion Awaits (or “Saving loads of money for your non-profit by delivering your newsletter electronically”)

Monday, January 15th, 2007

I'm certain the "powers that be" have considered delivering your non-profit's newsletter electronically, but I also know that, in many cases, that's where it ends - at consideration. Let's take a few minutes to find out why the idea of electronic delivery dies prematurely and how you, as a ...

5 Free Tools to Help Your Non-Profit Succeed Online and Off

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

While doing a bit of late night reading over at Consultant Commons, I ran across a post outlining a few pieces of online software aimed at helping npo's do some things online - on the cheap. While cheap is good, I am of the belief that today's open source ...

Blogging the Bill Gates Keynote at CES2007

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

I've always been excited by those heavy-hitting bloggers who blog "live and on location" from the likes of MacWorld, SXSW, and CES. So tonight, as I prepare to watch Bill Gates' keynote at CES, I'm gonna do it. (Please ignore the fact that I am neither at CES nor a ...