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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

Tech Soup

Web conferencing, voice and video conferencing, and other types of remote collaboration have become a mainstay in the modern workplace. For a view of what’s going on there, see Ginny Mies’s Video Conferencing Apps: Take Virtual Meetings on the Road. The premium (paid) version allows group video meetings.

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Windows 8 Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

Need a good vlogging (video blogging) tool? Try YouCam , a video and photo capture app with a built-in editor. Microsoft acquired Skype last year so the voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service has a brand new look for Windows 8. MetroTwit is a stylish Twitter client with a design inspired by Windows 8 user interface.

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

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To quote a somewhat recent YouTube blog piece , "if a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a video worth a million?" Storytelling with Mobile Video. It's reasonably easy to upload videos to Facebook or YouTube even without the phone being on a data plan. " May well be. No problem.

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Outstanding Offers and New Products of 2014 (Bonus: Crossword Puzzle!)

Tech Soup

fast; contents of a library (accounting) Answer. Libraries can collect fees on them or lend them out. If you’re trapped by your desk phone, walk away with the Sennheiser OfficeRunner wireless headset and handset lifter. Skype Credits Help You Save on Calls. Record training webinars and save them as video files.

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Tips to Maximize Your Nonprofit’s Data Plan

Tech Soup

GB), streaming an hour of high-definition video (1 to 2 GB), or making Skype-to-Skype calls (3 MB per minute). We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that we offer nonprofits, schools and libraries unlimited 4G data plans for just $10/month. Limit the most data-intensive uses to the office whenever possible.

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Staying in Touch with Staff and Colleagues, Virtually

Tech Soup

Have you used instant messaging (IM), Skype, or Wimba video conferencing to collaborate with a others far away? In our office, I'm usually logged on to Skype and AIM (or Pidgin ) most of my days in order to answer quick questions from co-workers whether I'm working from home, traveling, or simply down the hall. read more.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However, once children learn how to read it is crucial to sustain their interest by cultivating a reading habit and while the aim was to provide a book in every child’s hand and a library in every neighbourhood we found that there was a dire shortage of high-quality, low-cost children’s books. Example of Partham Books on mobile phones.

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