Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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eBooks #2: So you want to e-publish? Mechanics…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’d say you eventually want it in three different formats: PDF. PDF is easy. MS Word, OpenOffice.org, and LibreOffice (a recent fork of OpenOffice.org – that’s another blog post) have PDF export facilities, so that job is easy. MobiPocket. that are standard for eBooks. Here’s a nice, short guide. ).

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Last minute tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenOffice.org is coming closer to doing PDF import. In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. This was to appease the European Commission. This is great news. Happy dance, anyone?

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Why I won’t be buying a Kindle

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

odt, rich text, pdf) Allows any vendor of books (like Lulu, for instance) or any independent author to provide books for the device. I want something like a Kindle that: Has wifi (EVDO would be a nice addition, but some of us live in areas where the EVDO network does not go) Allows me to share books with people. Sorry, Amazon.

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I’m going to watch this pretty carefully. issue as they see it.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In addition, DimDim has an integration with Moodle (PDF) ! I went back to look at DimDim – and lo and behold – DimDim went GPL ! They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. And also an integration with SugarCRM. Now things are getting interesting.

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