Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail. Allowing an invaluable insight in developing content that may not just be convenient via technology, but possibly even more effective if properly educated. Learning Styles.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. All students around the world have access to rich and varied educational content. •

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” the lead character of Alexander sings about who he and America are meant to be. For example: If you’re any type of education program, you can offer learning opportunities to non-enrolled students. And when making promises to a group where trust matters, the second rule definitely applies.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Its staff members do lots of things, including (but definitely not limited to!). Outside of work he loves movies, live music, and especially theater. Bob goes to the theater at least twice each month as well as going to see Americana blues live music. Her favorite mission area is definitely the environment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The Definition of a Gentleman Eulogy for James R. Ever resourceful, Bill grabbed one of dad’s business cards and wrote out the following quotation: It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. Second, he inspired us with his love of music. Fruchterman, Sr. He was always singing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 The only thing that will be left is games. I like building my own systems – I need a new desktop, and I like the idea that I can build my own easily, and get a fair bit of power fairly cheaply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists. His definition: A style in which the trainer acts as a peer to the student, physically sitting with the student and explaining technical concepts simply. .&# It resonated.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2012

An example is the nonprofit Hoshyar Foundation ’s beautiful presentation about educating girls in Pakistan that went viral and got 2,000 to 5,000 hits per day. This presentation is also a great example of what can be done with multimedia (music and video) in SlideRocket. It’s definitely worth checking out!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. Client-centered museums offer a wide variety of active educational experiences but may be called out as "Disneyesque" playgrounds in boxes. The growth of the Web and Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

It’s definitely worth a read. Just like evaluating a company that releases as specific application that you are interested in, understanding and evaluating the community around an open source project can be quite important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 0 release – for example from 2.x is always major.)

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

AI models use algorithms to recognize patterns, learn from specific sets of data, and provide responses based on that education. For example, Amazon’s Alexa along with the site’s personalized recommendations for movies, books, and music are provided by various AI models. AI will definitely allow staff to work smarter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

It’s definitely worth a listen. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. { New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days. Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So this is definitely a tool to watch. It’s still in “private&# beta (ask for an invite, you’ll probably get one – I did.) There are a lot of features that are unfinished, but what’s done is polished, and pretty smooth. You can share these Blists. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual. You are not obtaining the software, and whether or not you can see the code, or modify it, is really not the key issue here. But the real story is much more complicated.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. YouTube ain’t bad. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content. The platform lends itself to investments in high-definition movies, high-resolution photos, and audio-clips — stories that help reveal "what your support is accomplishing."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. We discussed the challenges and opportunities around codifying an online request code, what role mobile must play, the needs for increased capacity and public education. social tools + people = lives saved. .

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I feel that there is a definite demand for open source software in our wonderfully capitalist world. I use GNU/Linux almost exclusively, and I am building a Linux distribution. But, it isn’t as if I intend to be a pauper and live in a box or something. I intend to make a good living on open source software.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon 2019 last month in Music City was the biggest and best one yet, breaking the record with over 3,000 attendees from close to 1,700 unique organizations. For instance, they often have data to demonstrate the work they are doing: children educated, animals saved, meals served, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

at 10:00 am It seems to me that open social networking protocols are definitely the way forward. I don’t like schemes like that (although I guess its a bit more honest – it’s clear that money is being made in the number of eyeballs – and I guess some of it is making it back to the users. 6 Joe 09.01.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

It definitely focuses a lot on the eye candy, which is nice, actually – I like that the admin interface is pretty. CMSs do share that pretty serious learning curve – but I’m getting over it, slowly. So I like Joomla. Do I like it better than Drupal? I’m not yet sure. I know, that’s silly, but it’s true.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Definitely an interesting conversation to have. I could see being paid some base for doing the work and then a bonus or something on top of that for achieving specific outcomes. I actually have a book around here somewhere that describes how to negotiate this kind of process. I’ll have to look for it. 2 Alan Weiss 10.23.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

For the longest time I shunned Twitter without ever really giving it a chance, as it sounded dumb just by definition. at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08 at 8:42 am I think the biggest pain point that Twitter has is getting people to start using it.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

I’m your host, Randy Hawthorne, Executive Director of Nonprofit Hub, an educational resource for nonprofits. There, you’ll find all of the education we provide in podcasts, classes, webinars, a print magazine, and online articles that are published throughout the week. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Understanding the broadest possible definition of the giving season is a great way to grow as a nonprofit leader. Personally, I love Christmas, but even my definition of this important time is different to others around me. It is a time of families gathering together, meals and music, and a moment to remember those less fortunate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2006

at 9:48 am Yes, this is all definitely worth a longer conversation. Katrin 3 Michelle Murrain 10.11.06 As you well know, one of the things that has been one of the most important to me is the availability of good software for nonprofits that’s built for them in mind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

If there are specific pages that give you trouble, or if you still find the overall site too slow, definitely let us know and we’ll get on that. Michelle, we hear you on the concerns about speed, and we’ve made some strides in that respect after a rather clunky period of server failure and finding out where the choke points are.

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