Idealware reviewed twenty-seven lower-priced online software tools that accept donations from an existing website. What they found was good news: many affordable tools are also powerful, friendly, and flexible. They offer recommendations for high-quality tools, as well as a method to choose the right tool for you. 

http://www.idealware.org/donations/intro.php

These notes were taken at an informal Emerging Technologies discussion held at CompuMentor on July 5, 2005.  The aim of the discussion was to examine ways in which new technologies impact (positively or negatively) nonprofit organizations. The notes are also attached.

Appletalk is an obsolete network protocol once used with Apple Macintosh computers. It does not use TCP/IP.

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is used to automatically provide TCP/IP settings to computers on a network. Computers that receive their configuration this way are said to have a dynamic IP address.

DNS (Domain Name System) is a technology to match up a computer's name with its IP address. Names are easy for people to remember, but computers and network equipment only understand numbers.

Look at the current resources, post the standards you use and participate in the discussions on what standards we need, and how we can roll these standards out accross the Nonprofit world.

The download is the handout from the NTC session. Some of the content is repeated on other pages of this book.