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Why I won’t be buying a Kindle

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Closed – can’t upload open document formats Can only buy books from Amazon I’m still not clear about what happens when you buy your 201st book – do you have to throw out one? Sorry, Amazon. Amazon has this thing sewed up tight, whereas books are to be shared. Kindle is a bust for me. { 3 Ann 11.26.07

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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media: A Guide | Social Media Strategery – Here's an interesting post from Steve Radick about 10 ways to be a good government consultant using social media. "As ″ consultants." ″ consultants." Find me on Delicious for more!

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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media: A Guide | Social Media Strategery - Here's an interesting post from Steve Radick about 10 ways to be a good government consultant using social media. "As ″ consultants." ″ consultants." These are some links I wanted to share from October 28th.

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The evolution of web hosting

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Amazon seems to be leading in the next wave of evolution of hosting – pay only for what you need, when you need it. The news today, and why I’m bothering to talk about this, is that Red Hat announced that it will offer RHEL – their enterprise distribution, on Amazon E2.

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Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Miro , the free and open source media player, has released a Firefox plugin , which automatically inserts their affiliate code when you buy something from Amazon. It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. This seems like something many nonprofits might want to try out.

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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

Have Fun - Do Good

If you have suggestions for people I should interview, or a do-good business that would like to sponsor the show, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com *Show notes* I mentioned in the intro that I was first introduced to Will's work in FRESH the Movie , which came out in 2009.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Companies such as Amazon are creating massive grid storage and computing services for applications in the cloud. As the bandwidth available increases (via FiOS , and other methods) cloud computing will get even more attractive to organizations and people.

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