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An interesting call from danah boyd

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I agreed to publish my piece at Sage for complicated reasons, but… I vow that this is the last article that I will publish to which the public cannot get access. That’s super depressing. I am boycotting locked-down journals and I’d like to ask other academics to do the same. It’s really worth a read.

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Millennial Innovators: Meet Ecoviate, GiveMob, and Scholarships Expanding Education (SEE)

NTEN

I was especially intrigued about this part of the event because, with the help of our friends at LimeRed Studios, NTEN is planning its own Idea Accelerator at the Leading Change Summit this September.) Here''s a postcard of sorts from one piece of the program: the Be Fearless! Pitch-It competition. (I

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I promise (!)

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I promise (!)

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Things We Like (January 2010)

NTEN

is like Google Docs for elementary school students. The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. And not just because the winner will be announced at the 2010 NTC.) Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. (And, while we swear we didn't make those quizes. Controlled serendipity. Primary Pad.

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Things We Like (January 2010)

NTEN

Primary Pad is like Google Docs for elementary school students. The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. And not just because the winner will be announced at the 2010 NTC.) Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. Controlled serendipity. We have heard the future and it is incoherent. Hilarious, though.

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"Leveling the Playing Field" Through Broadband and Public Computers

NTEN

Some rural areas, like the Missouri county mentioned by Kelvin Simmons, Commissioner of the Office of Administration, have "absolutely no broadband access," which keeps students from doing homework assignments that are placed on school websites. Tags: NPTech NTEN. How to provide computers and access is a critical question. .