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StatCrunch

I applaud the fact that online survey tools have become very popular among nonprofits in the last few years. It reflects an awareness of the Internet as a listening medium, not just a messaging medium. What's often missing from the nonprofit toolkit is a statistical package that is as affordable as the survey tools. StatCrunch is a web-based application with a full range of numerical and graphical methods, including interactive features for exploratory analysis, import of both text and Excel files, and easily repurposed HTML output. Posted: 10/4/06; 10:40:45 AM #

SlideShare

While the popularity of lousy video clip sites continues to soar (proving once again that gambling is more compelling than winning), along comes SlideShare, a social site for sharing Powerpoint and Open Office (and hopefully someday, Keynote) slide shows. You just upload the file and the site handles conversion to a slick flash player. The site is full of Web 2.0 stuff (including a tag cloud, which I've always found to be a lousy user interface), which means it's very much focused on communities. Because it's about slide shows, that means communities of practice, where learning and teaching is shared among members with shared interests. SlideShare launches today. Posted: 10/4/06; 10:22:42 AM #