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Harry Potter all-night online party

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We've been getting regular updates from our volunteer scanning crew, who have chopped, scanned, OCR'd, paginated and are now doing the final prep work to release the newest Harry Potter book to the Bookshare.org community. I love technology for its own sake, but it's always good to experience how technology promotes connections among people!

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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Smith have been diving deep in the latter for the past couple of years for the research for their much anticipated book Digital Habitats. Technology for Communities project. The Technology for Communities project was started off by Nancy, John, and Etienne. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.).

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All You Need To Know About Virtual Conferences

AccelEvents

But, with a virtual conference, you will have virtual technology to consider. An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more. Steps For Setting Up Your Virtual Conference. More Attractive to Attendees.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.&# At the end of the month, we’ll share a summary of what we’ve learned as e-book with some blog posts along the way. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field.

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Booksharian Heroes Hit 40,000

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare.org just hit a milestone by reaching 40,000 accessible books in our collection. This is always a cause for celebration by our team, recognizing the incredible amount of work involved in bringing each book to our Bookshare.org members by our volunteers and collection development staff. She Turns on her computer.

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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. In many organizations, technology is viewed as separate from the work the organization is doing.

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Tech Planning Tips for Every Nonprofit or Library

Tech Soup

In August, we hosted a webinar called Technology Planning Tips for Small Libraries. Travis Montgomery, technology specialist, Liberty Lake Municipal Library (Washington). More than a third of our webinar attendees do not have a current technology plan, and 14 percent said they were not sure if they had one or not.

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