Archive for Nonprofiteering

Warming to SalesForce

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on November 20th, 2008 No Comments

I finally figured out what that weird, high strung, can’t sleep, anxious feeling is that I’ve had for a few days.  Stress!  It’s been so long without deadlines and related technical problems beyond my control that I almost forgot what it was like. So much for blogging every day, but there’s a demo due tomorrow [...]

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501 Tech Club

Nonprofiteering on November 18th, 2008 No Comments

Since March I’ve been reading nonprofit blogs, going to meetings, scoping RSS feeds, reading Twitter messages, emails, and all kinds of stuff to educate myself.  I think it’s working!  Today I feel able to have a fluent conversation with someone who knows what they’re talking about in the nonprofit technology space, and only minorly expose [...]

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Social Actions

Nonprofiteering on November 16th, 2008 No Comments

I stumbled across an interesting RSS feed a week or two ago (thanks to Google Reader, not Stumble Upon, despite the fact that I stumbled upon it).  It’s called Social Actions, and it might be trying to dragging the nonprofit/NGO/volunteer technology and data marketplace into the Web 2.0 era.  In particular, I think the “Change [...]

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Open Source USPS Address Validation?

Nerding, Nonprofiteering on November 15th, 2008 No Comments

I’ve been looking for open source address validation code for an application I’m working on.  I’ve learned a bit about how the data is structured, including that there are a set of companies which are ‘CASS Certified’ to offer these services. For $35, you get a script designed to work with the USPS WebTools API.  [...]

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