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Great reads from around the web on October 14th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. However, just today a.ly

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Favorite Free Software

Robert Weiner

BookmarkBridge — Keeps bookmarks in sync between multiple browsers: [link]. Google Talk — An alternative to Skype, but only for 1 to 1 calls: [link]. Skype — Free VOIP calls, conference calls, and video calls: [link]. Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link].

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Senior-Friendly Tools To Get Grandma Wired

NTEN

Browser Bookmarks - To start with, I created bookmarks for my Grandma to be able to access her favorite sites without having to use Google Search or remembering the URL. Skype - Skype's video conferencing abilities are a great way to have free long distance or international phone calls to family or friends.

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Video Conferencing Apps: Take Virtual Meetings on the Road

Tech Soup

Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows Phone) is the mobile version of the popular face-to-face video calling service (we use Skype here at TechSoup). Make sure to bookmark this page as we will continue to add new resources and products. You can make calls over both 3G and Wi-Fi connections.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.).

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I Collaborate blog has a post about how to lobby for skype in your organization, if you're working internationally. Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type.

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Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

My workflow does involve the web, for sure, but I can only keep up with so many social networking sites of varied uses (social bookmarking, social networking like Linked in, community blogs etc. Check my Skype status. First off, it doesn’t fit into my workflow. And, I’m sorry, but “ Insert_web.20_new_thing

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