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eBooks #1: ePub is to eBooks as MP3 is to music?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If you’ve been around the block as long as I have, you remember the days before an audio codec was settled upon. There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. They don’t have the same success with eBooks that they did with music. What I want to talk a bit about is what’s next.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. An online database of third-party social media apps and software, there are thousands of free tools listed in categories ranging from photos and videos to music and games. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. Turns out that Chris’ mom was the acting CEO of a new software company, “Napster.”

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. He described the curriculum where inmates learn both computer skills and the recording/audio production skills and the classroom space (with "walls made of radio signals").

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08 The Wikipedia definition -[link] – suggests in fact that the opposite is true, “From the software vendor’s standpoint, SaaS has the attraction of providing stronger protection of its intellectual property and establishing an ongoing revenue stream&#.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. Described the features and content.

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