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Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Nonprofit Internet Strategies : Best Practices for Marketing, Communications, and Fundraising Success Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Authors: Ted Hart, James M. Greenfield, Michael Johnston Rating: 4/5  The book's authors provide a good overview of fundraising and technology, and discuss implementation strategies with a fair amount of depth. As a prospect researcher, it is encouraging to see research and data mining covered so well. As someone who has worked in a number of nonprofits of different sizes, the chapter on staffing is the true find. Tim Mill-Groninger not only provides a good model to think through tasks and processes and how to reach effective solutions, he gives a crash course in managing staff and consultants that in a few pages is more helpful than a shelf full of business books. It has application far beyond a nonprofit's development, marketing, and IS needs. Style-wise, the repetition of "ePhilanthropy" grates and seems awkwardly applied, considering the book's intended readers are the recipients of philanthropy, not primarily those who practice it. Content-wise, I recommend this book highly.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Publisher: Basic Books Authors: Douglas R. Hofstadter Rating: 5/5  Playing his subject like a virtuoso pianist, Hofstadter weaves his golden braid around unlikely subjects: formal systems, Zen, molecular biology. But even if you know nothing of these, read on: you will learn before you finish, and Achilles and Mr. Tortoise will keep you entertained throughout. In a word, brilliant.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: Code Complete Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Steve McConnell Rating: 5/5 Simply put, this book has important fundamentals, that every programmer should know, and not easily found elsewhere. I read this book when it first came out and it helped accelerate my career wonderfully. Even though it's been around a while, most everything still holds true. Unfortunatley, it doesn't cover much object-oriented design the way more recent books do. Nonetheless, it contains concepts that still aren't taught in schools. It was ahead of its time when it was published and I made a point of making it required reading for the five-step training program in my book, "The Secret Path to Contract Programming Riches," where I stress how important this book is to becomming a master programmer. This book definitely has to be on the bookshelves of all serious programmers! ~ Michael Nigohosian, author - "The Secret Path to Contract Programming Riches: An Expert Consultant's Step-by-Step Guide That..."
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Title: Microsoft Windows 2000 MCSE Core Requirements Training Kit (With CD-ROM) Publisher: Microsoft Press Authors: Rating: 1/5  These MS books don't prepare you for tests well and they don't educate you about the products and technologies well. They *kinda* do both. If you want to learn about MS, buy their resource kits, which are excellent and inexpensive, and other references. If you want to pass the tests, go with some of those red cover books like exam cram.
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