Technology For Progress
Technology For Progress is a grassroots organization that works in the United States and international communities to enable individuals, communities, ngos and local governments to:
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| Nonprofit Technology Conferece in Atlanta 08 April 2010 NTEN, the NonProfit Technology Network, along with Georgia Center for NonProfits, is hosting the 2010 NonProfit Technology Conference. TechForProgress will be in attendance and helping to cover the conference with photo, video, and live tweeting. The conference webpage is here: http://www.nten.org Stay tuned for more... |
| Dependency on 3rd Party Services: NO 17 November 2009 While updating the website for the Northwest Bronx Coalition, we realized some old pages had some embedded video from youtube and other media providers like ABC. One of these videos had been taken offline by that particular provider. This was very frustrating as this particular video really showcased how the mainstream media had picked up one of their actions. So we had to take this video or lack thereof down until we could scour the web to find a replacement, hopefully on a more reliable provider(youtube?). This situation highlights a huge issue with the web. Its impermanence. This issue came to a head recently when a popular url shortener went out of business leaving millions of stranded and shortened obscured links all over the web. Yes, its true that anytime we post a link, that reference can change or go out of date or change its content entirely. Hopefully, the previous link still exists when you are reading this. However, this clearly is a much smaller problem tha [ ... ] |
