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The Cruft Challenge: When It’s Time to Disrupt Your Own Technology

Associations Now

We all have software like United Airlines’ flight-tracking system, software that definitely needs the occasional upgrade, that is built from technology that predates some of your own employees. Call it “The Blogging Software Dilemma, Version 2.0.” ” A Clean Break. Learn to Leapfrog Yourself.

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The Long Road to Standards Adoption

Virtual

With its much-anticipated announcement this week, Apple became the latest and the last of the leading smartphone vendors to adopt Near Field Communication or NFC technology. The company announced NFC will be in its forthcoming iPhone 6 models and will become the enabling technology for a new mobile payment ecosystem called Apple Pay.

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6 Simple Ways to Facilitate Conference Connections

Idea Architects

Simple technologies allow us to more easily find, connect with, and tap into the brain trust of a much larger group of individuals than before. While Im a heavy user of sophisticated electronic community-building software whenever it is part of a conference, here are a few easier-to-implement tactics: 1. Oct 2003 (1).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Crowdsourcing.

Idea Architects

If youre interested in trying this approach, two free or low-cost online software options are IdeaScale and Skild. The premise: while modern management is one of humankinds most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age.". Oct 2003 (1). Sep 2003 (2). Aug 2003 (1).

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[Research] Data on Nonprofit Cloud Computing: Anywhere, Anytime Technology for Social Change

Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” ” That’s when you use software on the Internet versus your local hard drive or local computer network. We need to know more about the technology usage of the organizations we all serve.

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Digital Privacy Compliance for Nonprofits: The Big 3 Laws

Achieve

Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive. Use marketing and email software that adds opt-out links to emails and will automatically update your records to remove opted-out donors from your mailing lists.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was established well before 2007—Salesforce, the company that put SaaS on the map, was founded in 1999—but it took a while for its impact to really be felt broadly, particularly in learning businesses. The SaaS Explosion. I can’t remember the last time that happened. The Creator Economy. The Algorithm-Data Dance.

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