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

Byte Technology

Because they can detect nuances in plantings that can’t be viewed effectively from the ground—healthy densities for example—they can help farmers plan ahead to avoid disasters arising from droughts, infections that can wipe out entire yields and even whether or not certain sections of plantings are maturing at a faster rate than others.

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Why Your Organization Needs Telecommuting – When the Commuter Train Shuts Down

Tech Soup

The reality is that shifting to a more flexible telecommuting model with your organization is likely to be a bit like a new exercise routine. What about the burden to have a home office, the benefits of face-to-face, the prestige of a nice office, and coffee chat time? Obviously not all jobs can be done effectively in a remote work framework.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. " Nancy White's slides from TALO and some audio from Nothern s about the new rules for online communities. Check out this disaster simulation game from the UNISDR called Stop Disasters ! Also announced 2.0 Commentary here.

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What’s So Funny? Humor in Museums

Museum 2.0

Because humor is a design tool that can be employed as powerfully as a skillfully placed light or a fabulous slice of audio. I was watching an episode of CSI recently with audio commentary from the director and many times, he pointed out humorous touches designed to “lighten” the tone of the show. So why do it? Consider television.

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next year, we hope to develop Entoure’s presence online to provide a truly virtual counterpart to their cycle and fitness events so that our online supporters and friends of the cyclists can experience all the effort in preparing for the ride and they 400km/3 day challenge itself – with blogs, videos, images, live commentary, audio interview.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. In many respects, much of what Amazon does differs little from the model of Victorian capitalism.

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