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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. One last thing.

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QuickBooks Helps BITS Serve Struggling Youth

Tech Soup

She grew up in Kazakhstan and moved to Canada in 2009 to attend George Brown College's advanced management program. She enjoyed passing on her business knowledge, acting as a role model, and building professional relationships along the way. "It was so easy to understand and helps us tremendously," Veronika explains.

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QuickBooks Helps BITS Serve At-Risk Youth

Tech Soup

She grew up in Kazakhstan and moved to Canada in 2009 to attend George Brown College's advanced management program. She enjoyed passing on her business knowledge, acting as a role model, and building professional relationships along the way. "It was so easy to understand and helps us tremendously," Veronika explains.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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On to New Adventures

NTEN

I was brought on board to help with the 2009 Nonprofit Technology conference when I returned to Portland after dropping out of a graduate program that wasn't a good fit and came at the wrong time. I ended up at NTEN by accident. NTEN turned out to be one of the best decisions I have ever made.

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Churches and Engagement (But Not Weddings): Tips for Engaging Each Generation

Connection Cafe

Generation Z: Born 1996–2009. As this generation search for who they are, your church can engage them and show them where faith fits into it all. This generation is considered one of the loneliest generations, and church can help fill that void. They may be less knowledgeable about technology, but they do use it.