@2 back from Dark Knight eahh! Okay but I could have waited until the rental

Just up and trying ping some more

Resource Roundup 12/18

from Google Reader (103): "on Dec 18, 2007 (5 days ago)
Resource Roundup 12/18
from Idealware by laura

A Beginner's Guide To Data Backup (Small Business Computing)
Good overview of some of the options for and varieties of data backup

Blogs in Plain English (Common Craft)
The latest in Common Craft's fun 'Plain English' video series - this one on blogs

One Computer, Multiple Operating Systems (TechSoup)
An introduction to virtualization software, which can allow you to run multiple operating systems on one computer

Is mobile fundraising the next frontier for charities? (MobileActive.org)
Great overview of what mobile advocacy could mean for nonprofits

Feed Your Content to the World (ICT Hub Knowledgebase)
A nice summary of how to syndicate your website content via RSS"

Another great post from Laura at Idealware.

GDrive: Three Ways it Could be a Game Changer

I noticed the announcement from Google too but I was one of those who thought it was old news too, now I'm not so sure.

"Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 27, 2007 /

The Wall St. Journal ran a B1 story this morning about the forthcoming online storage service from Google. Call it GDrive, call it Platypus, call it My Stuff - the vast majority of tech bloggers have called it old news. I disagree. I think there's a lot of potential for Google's online storage to be a game changing product. It appears that the GDrive will sit on your desktop and sync automatically selected files automatically with online storage. Those files will be accessible from the desktop and browser at least as easily as they would be were they on your own hard drive."

Full article >>>

Jayne Blog (Volunteerism, Nonprofit Tech, Civil Society, etc.)

In the latest post of Jayne Blog (Volunteerism, Nonprofit Tech, Civil Society, etc.) Dec. 3, 2007 - Jayne Cravens makes some very important points about Technology and Volunteerism, or at least the managing of volunteers. The points she makes were true 10 years ago and unfortunately remain true today.

"Getting volunteer managers to use tech Despite the best efforts of many different people and organizations over the last 11 years, many volunteer managers -- maybe most -- have NOT embraced online technology to support their volunteers nor to grow professionally, and the few online discussions regarding volunteerism are remaining terribly basic:"

full article >>

Back again

By the way hello, I've been busy with a bunch of different things and just dropped away from posting. I will be trying to get here on a more regular basis.

3 Time-Saving Ways to Deal with Computer Errors

Now here is a useful little post that could save us all some time and effort (or at least let my clients save information on the problems that they rnn into in the course of a day).

"3 Time-Saving Ways to Deal with Computer Errors error Computer errors are an unfortunate and inescapable part of life. While this article won’t get rid of those errors for you, it will help you get through, and deal with them more efficiently."

from Friedbeef’s Tech