A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.
- UMapper lets you build applications on top of maps -- like this one where you have to find U.S. states on a topo map. (If you beat 88% accuracy, well, we don't like you any more.) Just think of the nonprofit applications. No, really: think of them, then implement them.
- Proof that Roombas really work!
- Reports! There have been a lot of releases over the past month. Did you miss any?
- 2008 Nonprofit IT Staffing & Spending Report
- 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study
- A Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems
- Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report
- The Read Write Web Guide to Community Management
- Trends in Constituent Satisfaction with Nonprofit Websites: Building Membership, Donations, and Loyalty through the Web Channel
- Embedded bullet lists. We're just sayin'.
- Cool uses of video. You can learn how to serve up margaritas, flashmob style or record a fundraising video, Beyonce style. If you want to learn how to do it yourself, CNET has a new "Experts Guide to YouTube".
- Amazon Payments will process your donations for free through September 30th. Unfortunately, they don't have a "Free Kindle for Nonprofits" program yet, but waiving transaction fees is cool, too.
- Who knew? People are writing about us in Spanish. We renew our call for an app to pipe foreign language blogs through an automagic translation service...
- What do people want out of Recovery.gov? Data. Apparently, somebody's listening, because the U.S. Senate just started publishing Roll Call votes in XML.
- The Feds may also be the first to define cloud computing adequately. What is going on?
- The government has nothing on the NTEN community's ability to find adorable animals online, though. Amy Sample Ward pointed to the epic Robot vs. Puppy battle, and Lin Hundt tipped us off to Kitten War. Keep 'em coming!