Highlights Of The 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference
I’m back and moderately recovered from the 2015 NTC in Austin, Texas, where, along with plenty of good Texas food.
I’m back and moderately recovered from the 2015 NTC in Austin, Texas, where, along with plenty of good Texas food.
Say you sign up for some great Web 2.0 service that allows you to bookmark web sites, annotate them, categorize them and share them. And, over a period of two or three years, you amass about 1500 links on the site with great details, cross-referencing -- about a thesis paper's worth of work. Then, one day, you log on to find the web site unavailable. News trickles out that they had a server crash. Finally, a painfully honest blog post by the site's founder makes clear that the server crashed, the data was lost, and there were no backups. So much for your thesis, huh? Is the lesson, then, that the cloud is no place to store your work?
This article was co-written by Laura Quinn of Idealware and first published on the NTEN Blog in October of 2007..
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