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Entries for March, 2008

6 Myths About Craigslist Employment Advertising

For several years Craigslist.org has been the ultimate online classified ad service.  What started in 1995 as a simple service publishing local event notices in San Francisco has exploded into a worldwide advertising phenomenon.  Today Craigslist regularly ranks in the top 100 websites on the Internet and still operates as a non-commercial venture.  But does [...]

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When Should You Upgrade Your Operating System?

Windows Vista has been out for just over a year and, as usual for OS releases, it has been met with mixed reviews. But your small nonprofit is still operating on Windows XP (or some other version) and wanting to know if it’s time to upgrade. Whether you are using Macs or PCs, here’s a [...]

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Google for Nonprofits Launched Yesterday

Yesterday Google announced on their official blog the launch of Google for Nonprofits.  For the most part, Google for Nonprofits is simply a collection of their already existing tools that may be useful to nonprofits (or any organization, for that matter).  On the homepage of Google for Nonprofits, you will find many of the well [...]

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Nonproft Fundraising with eBay Online Auctions

Nearly everyone knows that eBay is the dominate leader in online auctions. Anyone can open an account to buy and sell almost anything on eBay. But did you also know that eBay has special programs to help nonprofits raise money? EBay calls their special nonprofit program Giving Works. In the past eight years, more than [...]

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What’s a Blog and Does My Nonprofit Need One?

A blog, short for web log, is a website where content (articles and stories) is added to the homepage with the most recent at the top. For example, this website is a blog. Originally blogs were online journals, often personal and usually opinionated. But today, the blogging format has a variety of uses. The real [...]

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Data Recovery: Getting Rid Of Data Recovery Myths

There is a lot of mythology surrounding the idea of data recovery. People have to go through it when they delete some important files by accident off their hard drives. You’ll probably also see forum posts from people wondering what to do about their lost data after a computer crash. There are plenty of so-called [...]

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