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How to get your educational nonprofit into classrooms, without leaving the office

The Nerdy NonProfit

A mere nine percent of children from America’s most low-income families graduate – this is compared to 77 percent from the wealthiest families. All you need is a reliable webcam and a video streaming platform like Skype or Facebook Live. The gap is one that nonprofits seek to eliminate.

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Save the Internet, Save the World

NTEN

So, why would you be interested in the debate about getting broadband Internet access to under-served communities? You need access to high speed Internet to participate in our society. If you care about your clients, if you care about your community, you need to care about the Internet. Who controls what is on the Internet.

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Bookshare in Chennai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I now feel even I can help people living in America!!” After several days of training in Chennai and through Skype with me in California and the Worth Trust team in Chennai they started off with 30 books a month. She says, “This job has greatly increased my self-esteem.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. It does mean that everyone who is involved in a webinar needs to install Skype – but that seems to be a minor issue, to my mind. But, you can’t use the Skype edition on Linux yet, either.

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An Internet Lesson in a Rural Cambodian Village: And Then You Wait.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To Mam Sary gets on the Internet via his cell phone connection which costs the Foundation roughly $28 per month. " Since we only have one Internet connection, all 15 students were huddled around the computer.

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Thank You For Making The Networked Nonprofit Launch A Hit!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the peak, it was ranked as the #1 nonprofit bestseller, #3 for general industries , #19 in the overall business segment , and # 108 overall in America ! My colleagues at Zoetica, Geoff Livingston and Kami Huyse were monitoring the back channel and skyping us questions. What a send off!

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And the Winner is. Jaffe's Join the Conversation Book Giveaway and How To Do A Giveaway Contest on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Students are picked by lottery and attend daily for six weeks to learn word processing and spread sheets, and see a bit of the internet on the school's one very slow connection, a cell phone. Hey, a girl can dream can't she?