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Celebrating Chinese New Year with Skype, Flickr, Stickers and Paper

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I told them that after circle we would use SKYPE internet phone to call Nick in Hong Kong. The day before, I had worked with the school's IT Director to get access to their wireless network and get ports cleared so we could I jack in my laptop and get beyond the firewall. I was not able to get on with my laptop.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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org co-founder Jon Warnow, who is their web director, which is as close as anyone gets to being an IT person at the organization. They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. We have weekly global Skype video calls for various teams.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

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One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). Billy was formerly director of partnerships at Meetup.com and had shown the power of it during the 2004 presidential campaign. Here were some the baffling hot new things that charity techies and geeks for good were buzzing about: Blogging and the blogosphere. Citizen journalism.

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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

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Some smartphones like iPhones and Dell Venue Pro phones can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi and even do Skype calls. Having Wi-Fi on a cell phone means it can connect to any wireless network just like a laptop computer. It's important to note that not all smartphones are Wi-Fi capable.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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org co-founder Jon Warnow, who is their web director, which is as close as anyone gets to being an IT person at the organization. They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. We have weekly global Skype video calls for various teams.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

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the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Gavin Clabaugh tells us how to embed "Skype Presence" in a SharePoint Web Part. for NGOs there.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We will use SKYPE out which is more rebust for monthly conference calls, scheduled for business hours in Pakistan so participants can use the Internet connection at their offices. One participant told me that she never learned so much about social media in so short a time. The power of peer knowledge at work!

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