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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." He was wrong. Too Much Freedom?

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." He was wrong. Too Much Freedom?

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Video Blogging in Rural Cambodian Province

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and video blogging workshops in Cambodia. I launched a personal fundraising campaign so I could help be a sponsor for the conference and get over there with video cameras, shwag (t-shirts and stickers donated by nonprofits and tech companies) and teaching resources. Videos to come shortly! Meanwhile, enjoy these photos.

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." He was wrong. Too Much Freedom?

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Great reads from around the web on May 14th

Amy Sample Ward

They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop. Does limiting the internet and computing options of your organization's staff actually limit what they could be doing to deliver on your mission? Follow them at tg2009.com! link] - "Lights.

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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

Yes, I hope they will contribute the $10 so we can win the $50,000 (which will certainly help us make improvements to our computer school and the Sharing Foundation's many other programs), but I am also want feedback about how to improve a computer program in a rural village in a developing country with really slow Internet. That is Mam Sari.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location. Using Google Hangout, you can switch between slides and camera, although when you are in slide mode, you can’t see the remote participants. The Google Hangout was projected on the screen.