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Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#

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Free and open source tool #12: Miro

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There are channels for everything. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. PBS has quite a number, as do various and sundry video podcasters.

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My Theory of Practice

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The vendor is expert at what they do, but cannot always provide a channel of communication that the client can really work with. I provide that clear channel, so both sides benefit. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 Those first three elements make up the communication arm of my practice.

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Free and Open Source Tool #11: Azureus

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The next version of Azureus, called Vuze , which I haven’t yet used, looks like it incorporates a media player and channels and such. People have written all sorts of cool plug-ins for it. Basically, becoming a serious competitor for Miro , which I’ll talk about in the next post.

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Free and open source tool #8:XChat

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like right now, on the Linuxchix IRC channel, we are discussing elections, HFS+ filesystems and terabyte switches.) It is a tool which is used predominantly in the open source world, for developers and users of open source projects to talk to one another, and get support. I use IRC every day. Quasi-social, quasi-professional.

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Why sometimes eating your own dogfood makes you want to throw up!

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Someone in an IRC channel last night who was trying to help me as I tore my hair out said “why does xorg suck so bad?&# at 8:42 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Holly 02.29.08 X Windows has always been the bane of my existence. I really have come to think that xorg has it in for me. at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

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But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08 I had been encouraged to look again at Yugma , because they said that Linux desktop sharing would happen before the end of last year.

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