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Flying High: Some Truly Creative Ways that Drone Technology is Being Utilized

Byte Technology

These droves are also equipped with audio/visual capabilities, meaning the EMTs can give information to people on the ground on how to help someone until the professionals arrive. In the construction industry, drones are showing great potential in aiding architects and builders collaborate more effectively and much more efficiently.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. We are also doing far more to spread the word about technology for rights activists, often in close collaboration with major partners in the human rights field such as Human Rights Watch and WITNESS.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our commitment to braille literacy means that the entire Bookshare collection of over 198,000 titles (and counting) is available not only for use in text, audio or the combination, played with a wide variety of assistive technology tools, but also formatted for use on electronic braille displays.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

NTEN

In this model, your organization will have no idea where the hardware actually providing your services is located -- and, better yet, you won't care. The people in these organizations know how to communicate and collaborate, and much of this interaction is conducted face-to-face. We Need to Have a Meeting! FYI: it doesn't work over 3G.)

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E-Mediat Day 4: What does it mean to be a social media trainer?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Each group was told to use words, text, audio, or video and then we presented to the whole group.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Leaders can leverage the hybrid meeting model to change this by looking around the table and making sure all voices are seen and heard, whether participating on-screen or in-person. 50-50 Time Split: This model allows staff to work from home half the time. They can also move the camera or adjust volume on the audio if needed.

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Social Learning Isn't Just for Kids: Learning in Public at Conferences and Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peer discussion on use of online tools for collaboration for bounded networks, exploring some of the concepts in Digital Habits (each participant got a copy). The answer comes from Eugene Eric Kim in a recent presentation he did about networks, "Be the Change You Want To See" - it's about modeling. Overview of Launch Meeting.

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