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 . Anil Dash , of Sixapart , was one of the speakers . Susan had set us up on a SKYPE connection while we were in-world. You can listen to a podcast of his remarks here , read a live blog from Lucy Bernholz here and read his reflections on he said over at his blog here . Tom and I arranged to meet Susan 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 . are gathering from August 25-29 in Marshall, California (a small town on Tomales Bay in northern California, a couple hours north of San Francisco). Now, I'm a GIGI and helped with set up and launch of the World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog ! From Tom Hurley's post about The World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue " ....

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).  This year Peter Deitz and Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson are there) I was going to participate remotely via hologram as Doug Jacquier describes skype for a roundtable with Mark, but my crazy schedule, time zone dyslexia and not realizing that I would actually be on a Virgin Flight with

Two years ago when this group was meeting in California, Nancy White saw me online and skyped me. In a kismit way, the Fedex man rang the bell at the same time and delivered Juanita Brown's book. As I returned to the skype call, I got to hear Juanita's voice for the first time! My Necklace/USB holder I'm just back from the red eye and really tired - and wanted to capture a few reflections about network effectiveness and resourcing.

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. A guest Beneblog by Viji Dilip International Bookshare Program Manager Every morning braving the heavy Chennai traffic Maria wheels into Worth Trust to start her work as a proof reader. 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. I

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. Davos retrospective I'm looking back at my visit to Davos a few weeks ago, and pulling together some of the highlights. I've also had the benefit of getting some great photos sent by other people that I can use (thanks, Marketa!).

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

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. – Once again the Jewish Television Network let people remotely watch Kol Nidre (Jewish High Holiday) service from their home via live webcast. And, for the second year in a row it was a hit.