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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states. Windows 8 adopters can also try out the Viewer for Khan Academy desktop app, which lets you watch Khan Academy videos on your desktop. School and Job Preparedness. iStudiez Pro. Apps Made by Youth.

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Save the Internet, Save the World

NTEN

I challenge anyone to try to get through the INS process in one hour, the time limit many public libraries put on Internet use.). Their two choices (if they're lucky) are: in the school or at the public library. Right now there are decisions being made in your town, in your state, and in Washington DC that could change the Internet.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

How can you change or adopt aspects of other types without losing your focus or mission? Which is really much closer to the library, which is why I know something about study storage, because individual quest is potentially there. So museums have stuff, and I want to dip in and out like I do at the library.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Keep a library of training materials. I've developed a keen sense of when it's safe to cross.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. Keep a library of training materials. I've developed a keen sense of when it's safe to cross.

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Meet Donna Callejon, Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When we both got back to DC we got together , and he and Mari needed some help with some business development support. So school or library-specific projects were and continue to be attractive to donors. I've been working on something called the " cute dog theory " of social media and nonprofit adoption.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

Tech Soup

She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries. ” Khan Academy’s comprehensive library of content covers a full primary school curriculum plus classes in math, and science including biology, chemistry, and physics. Peter Campbell.