I recently attended a panel discussion, Mobile Trends and Innovation, that was presented at a cool nonprofit art event called Artomatic in Arlington, Virginia. (Full disclosure, I am an amateur artist and have an exhibit space at Artomatic, so come on over!)The three panelists were Brian Briggman of Bitty Games, Joshua Konowe of Uppidy, and Brian Polangin of Mobile2Social. The discussion was geared toward entrepreneurs and small business owners.My main takeaway was the importance of having a mobile website. Accessing the Web via mobile devices is on the increase. In January 2012, 8.5 percent of web access was via a mobile device (compared to 4.3 percent in 2011 and 1.7 percent in 2010). Note that this statistic does not include tablets – just mobile phones. In 2011 in the U.S., 47 percent of mobile phone owners used their devices to access the Web, which is also a rising trend.Given the growth in access the Web via mobile devices, the panelists (especially Polangin) emphasized the need...

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Tomorrow we will be supporting Discovering Technology (DiscoTech). We are looking forward to working in the Media Lab with people of all abilities. The following is a list of some free and open source media and programming tools that we will refer to: bit.ly/xAIwbQ

If you have never used Experts Exchange to get your technology questions answered, we highly recommend it. Technology gurus from around the world volunteer their time to answer user questions. Hardware, software, servers, programming, Excel, databases -- anything you can think of is covered.  Experts Exchange is about to lauch Version 10 of its service and we look forward to the enhanced platform that should make finding answers to technology questions even easier.

 At NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in mid-March, as usual I came across a few great finds. In this posting, I talk about Tree Saver, Volunteer Rally, Zerista, and using Google Docs for post-conference note exchanges.

I recently had the opportunity to work with Phil Shapiro on a book review for PC World.  We discussed OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Macro Programming by Dr. Mark Alexander Bain.  The book covers OpenOffice.org's Calc spreadsheet and its macro programming environment. You can listen to our discussion on YouTube. A transcript of our discussion is posted here.

So you get an email message that looks really, really legitimate. There are no typos, the subject matter could easily apply to you or your organization. You check the domain name of the sender's email address and it is a legitimate organization. Do you go ahead and open the attached Word document?  No!  Instead, forward the message to VirusTotal, a free scannign service.

There is a lot of hype about "the cloud" these days. We have just begun to explore it's potential. The utility of the cloud that attracted us is in the ability for distributed systems to multiply computing power to serve an important cause. Green Moon has signed up on a trial basis to participate in Stanford University's Folding@Home protein research project.

As a follow-up to our participation in the Day of Service at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), I am posting an excerpt of our slide presentation. Our project was to work with an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization and identify technologies and strategies for them to begin receiving online donations. The crux of our presentation was focused on donation systems that we felt were the right fit for the specific organization we were helping. The part of our presentation that was focused on marketing donation systems is posted on Slide Share where you can view it. 

Tronn Carson was a friend and an invaluable contributor to Green Moon Solutions. It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to him and extend our sympathies to his family. 

I was recently asked to provide a summary of online file sharing tools. I thought I'd post that summary here. I touched on some of these tools in a previous blog about collaboration, but I will describe more resources here. I have listed the tools in two categories: web-based and desktop-based. Web-basedBasecamp (Milestones, To-Do Lists, File Repository): www.basecamphq.comProject Spaces (Document library/version control, task lists, calendar): www.projectspaces.comBox (Workspaces, document sharing/version history, document commenting): www.box.netDrop.io (a free service up to 100 MB, private shared spaces): drop.ioFiles Anywhere (Synchronization, version control): www.filesanywhere.comiCloud  (store, organize, open,...

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