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Human Services Software and Technology

Client tracking lies at the core of human and social service agencies and nonprofits. As organizations absorb more programs and the attendant information demands, organizations face increased pressures to manage and navigate a variety of data drawn from various sources. Particularly in the area of client tracking, where information-- some duplicative, some unique-- is entered into and from a variety of sources, legacy systems and ad hoc approaches developed under budget and technology resource constraints are called upon to serve a number of tasks.

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Tracking and Securing E-mail

E-mail messages are important not only to the intended recipients, but also to a growing number of third-parties as well, especially to marketers, solicitors, and distributors of "junk mail." Pixel Tags: Smart Cookies or Dumb Crumbs? If you think junk e-mail is worthless, you might want to think again. A Forrester Research estimate predicts that the e-mail marketing industry will generate some US$4.8 billion by 2003, and that by 2004, the average US household will get 9 pieces unwanted or unexpected e-mail solicitations a day.

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NetAid.org

NetAid, which took launched September 8, 1999, was an online collaboration between the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Cisco Systems, to help people in poverty-stricken countries. At the time, it was reported to be the largest online collaborative resource devoted to voluntary and philanthropic efforts connecting developing countries to overseas markets.

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Webcasting and Streaming Media

Web broadcasting is the use of the Internet to send content, via a dedicated stream of data, to anyone who tunes in to that particular continuous flow of sound, video, animation, or combination thereof. Webcasts are usually live broadcasts of content as it is being "pushed" or "streamed" to users. Streaming of data is a useful technology because it takes into consideration that different users are not able to access the same data stream via the same quality of Internet connection.

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Online Message Boards

Websites are great for presenting information to wide geographically dispersed audiences. Frequently, however, site visitors like to contribute their thoughts regarding not only the design or general content of a site, but specific perspectives on the information a nonprofit site shares with them.

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Free Internet Service Providers

1) Free ISPs Consolidate in Europe What exactly is a free Internet Service Provider (ISP), how they work, and where you can get one. If you were asking this question in the spring of 1999, you would literally have been witness to an explosion of offerings.

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Free and Low Cost Internet Telephone Services

The Internet is often touted as the means to make just about everything faster, more efficient, and cheaper, but when it comes to telephone calls, why bother to computer when you have a device called a telephone sitting right in front of you?

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Finding Free Web Hosting Services

Nonprofit organizations, especially small groups, continue to look for ways to take advantage of he benefits of the Internet while incurring the least amount of expenditures. While there are a range of services that provide free e-mail and other Web-based services, are there services that allow nonprofits to put up and maintain actual websites for free? If so, are they worth the price?

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Web Animation and Advocacy

In 1953, the Warner Brothers' animation studio unleashed a skinny, big-toothed, mouse upon the world in a short featured titled "Cat-Tails for Two". It would be another two years before a revised version of that figure made its more familiar appearance in its second (and eponymous) feature-- Speedy Gonzales. Around that time, legendary cartoon vocalist Mel Blanc added his unique stylings for the remainder of Speedy's most famous cartoons, with his signature "Arriba! Arriba! Andale! Andale! YEEHAH!" exclamation.

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Voter Turnout Among Persons with Disabilities and Youth Online

On 10/15/01, the U.S. General Accounting Office released "Elections: Perspectives on Activities and Challenges Across the Nation", which addresses reform measures regarding the voting administration, voter registration, voting technologies, and vote counts and certification in federal elections. It is one of a series of reports to Congress in response to the issues and perceptions raised during the contested November 2000 Presidential election, in which some 57% of voting jurisdictions faced some problem conducting a fair and/or accurate vote.

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