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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

" AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. Here are my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)."

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The FCC and Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. Are they intended to inspire students? Some awards programs are around encouraging students and individual inventors: with the incentive being prestige or a minor amount of money ($5-10,000).

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Computer Technologies Program in Berkeley: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

Windows MultiPoint Server Premium 2011 licensing. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, 64-bit version, for all stations. Computer Technologies Program has 40 PCs, which are separated on to two different networks - one for staff and one for students. Installation date: December 18, 2012. Other testers came in soon after.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

Through TechSoup Japan, KnK received a donation of 15 Microsoft Office 2007 licenses and Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. The school has about 300 students who attend classes in a one-room building that ordinarily accommodates 30 children. The remaining students must hold classes outside underneath trees, if weather permits.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I promise (!)

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I promise (!)

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

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