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NTEN's (Free!) Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit

Tech Soup

You can get more information and RSVP for the streamed broadcast here. Per NTEN, the Cloud Summit will: Teach you how to distinguish hype vs. reality. And take a look at the human side of the Cloud - staff training and technology adoption. NTEN will also be streaming the event live. The best part? There will be two tracks.

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What is Twitter, Really? And Can it Do Anything for Museums?

Museum 2.0

There's a more measured article about twitter from the MIT Technology Review that gets beyond the hype to talk about twitter's functionality. This means that you can broadcast messages to a group of friends/followers from your phone, your IM service, or the web, and can receive messages similarly.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As always happens, these slow adopters will eventually be dragged kicking and screaming along when they find nobody occupying the space they stayed behind to protect. been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. broadcaster VRML world projects in 96 called the Mirror (BT, BBC and others). I also have been around this.