from my flickr photo stream Susan Tenby from TechSoup gave a presentation for a workshop called Virtual Games/Virtual Worlds during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing called From YouTube to Podcast: Digital Media, Philthanthropy, and Social Justice. Susan had set us up on a SKYPE connection while we were in-world.

Last month, as the UPS man was delivering my copy of The World Cafe book , Nancy White was skyping me from a gathering of the GIGIs and introduced me to the co-author Juanita Brown who I later met in-person during the NCDD Conference. Now, I'm a GIGI and helped with set up and launch of the World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog ! stewards???

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. Maria was raised by the sisters of the local Chennai Church, given a basic education and was sent off to Worth Trust to learn life skills.

The GiGis were meeting in California last Thursday and I was hoping to SKYPE in but spotty wifi in my hotel room. I just saw this and had to post it. I've been a member of the "GiGis" - the girl geeks of the WorldCafe since last summer. just discovered this congrats video! love it! Thank you! Thank you

His social entrepreneurial effort is making plastic toilets (Porta-potties in California parlance) and providing them to unemployed widows and youth to create jobs. One of the best memories of Isaac was standing in the Schatzalp hotel holding a laptop to his ear like it was a cell phone, because someone had made a Skype connection to Nigeria.

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang   delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details).  I keynoted the conference last year. oh well.

Two years ago when this group was meeting in California, Nancy White saw me online and skyped me. As I returned to the skype call, I got to hear Juanita's voice for the first time! My Necklace/USB holder. Yesterday, I attended a retreat day for the Girl Geeks of the World Cafe at Juanita Brown's beautiful home in Marin County.

Examples include AOL Instant Messenger, Skype, Google Talk, and many others. Griscom lives in Nevada City, California with his wife and two boys. Jacob Griscom, BetterWorld Telecom. Note: This article was originally published in a slightly different form on TechSoup.]. Increased employee productivity and creativity.

Getting the memberships to use them can be a challenge and adding a ning.com community site enhancement and an IM tool like skype or yahoo so that members can shop together can enable non-profits to direct their memberships and orchestrate them to use the shopping portal. Nonprofits are facing challenging times with leaner resources. Focus.

TX and via Skype and Yuuguu, watching the service with my 95-year old father who is in NY!! have not attended services for years - this is a wonderful opportunity and a beautiful service - thank you I am in Orange County, California. And, for the second year in a row it was a hit. September, 2009. Peace and health to all. Alix Ronay.