Technology

Question:  What is progress? 

Answer:  Progress is more than a means to an end. It's evolutionary.  Progress is a journey that allows you to evolve.  Your technology should evolve with you. 

Social television (also social interactive television) is a general term for technology that supports communication and interaction in the context of watching television, or related to TV content.  It also includes the study of television-related social behavior. Social television systems can for example integrate voice communication, text chat, presence and context awareness, TV recommendations, ratings, or video-conferencing with the TV set. Social television is an active area of research and development. Most existing social television systems are on a conceptual stage, or exist as lab prototypes, beta or pilot versions.

Salesforce.com and Vmforce announced this week new levels of innovation and sophistication to your cloud projects and customers.  To top it, VMforce will be jointly delivered by salesforce.com; combining the world’s most popular language (Java), the world's most popular Java framework (Spring), the world's most effective virtualization technology (VMware) and the world's most trusted cloud platform (Force.com).  In other words, VMware and SalesForce.com have come together to provide a robust, scalable PaaS offering for Java Developers.

What is it?   “Google Buzz is a new way (since early February), to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It's built right into Gmail, so you don't have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works. If you think about it, there's always been a big social network underlying Gmail. Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most.

Today, the use of online videos is proving to be a major advantage Associations can’t afford to miss. Online marketing videos is a rich form of effective communication. Within a short period of time your association profile can be presented professionally and a brief, resourceful, persuasive presentation can result in the enhancement of a member or potential member’s view of your organization. In today’s technology there is little else that compares to the value of an online video.

It has been about a week since we got back from the ASAE 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Toronto and it's time to do a wrap up! I wanted to wait to do a wrap up to see what everyone's thoughts and reactions were to the experience at the meeting.   For NFi Studios, we were extremely elated to see many of our friends in the association industry and meet new networks of people. If you were in Toronto with us, and stepped on our Red Carpet within our booth, thank you!

We want to share a video that Sterling showed in his educational session at the FSAE Annual Conference, talking about Social Media Strategy & Tactics - where the world came from in technology, where we are at now, and where we are going...

No matter what level you are at with technology, watch the whole video, its powerful...

On Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Google introduced Google Ad Planner.  And now the year old ad management system gets a complete overhaul. What is Google’s Ad Planner and how does it work? 

The Google Wave is a personal communication and collaboration tool. Google Wave uses an open protocol, so anyone can build their own wave system. Google Wave is a personal communication and collaboration tool. According to Google Wave developers, “the Wave can make you more productive even when you're having fun.

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.