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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Toyama on that issue: If a private company is failing to make a profit, no one expects that state-of-the-art data centers, better productivity software, and new laptops for all of the employees will turn things around. A great teacher is going to be better than a software program on a laptop or tablet.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. The art of storytelling though, and documenting an event or a slice of time is, of course, not restricted to bound pages. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997. This was Liz's question and it relates to this art project ). When I got home, I remembered the work of colleague Joitske Hulsebosch who has taught video blogging in Ghana.

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