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Tips for Remote Presenting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are presenting remotely you need two things: a robust Internet connection and a moderator in the room who can serve as a bridge between you and the folks in the room. It is also helpful to have a back channel for communications with the moderator. We had a very reliable Internet connection.

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What's Your Best Advice for Managing Information Overload? Join the Support Group in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, in preparation for a session I'm doing at BlogHer Boston , I created a quiz for folks to self-assess how much information overload was a factor. " Well, it seems that some people Twitter from the toilet with their cell phones and others, if the Internet connection is good, take their laptops with them too.

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Good Ram Gone Bad On My Dell Desktop: OMG

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm presenting and doing a workshop in Romania and then will be flying back to Boston via Miami to present at the Technology Affinity Group (Foundation IT folks) Conference. For catastrophic hardware issues, I have my back up computer - my laptop and I can plug my desktop keyboard, modem, and monitor) and viola I'm up and running.

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My Dad's Blog: First Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He emailed me a few weeks ago after I pointed him to the Boston Globe article about the power of blogging that featured me and asked me what is a blog.). What is really cool is that I was able to set up the treo as a modem and get high speed Internet access from here. was also able to set it up on my husband's laptop.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

And the question was really, were the networks and the Internet bandwidth for each person’s home adequate enough to do the job? I mean, the biggest thing…this would be probably a good time to speak on a little bit of a story here on the last point, which is home network and internet. Things like that. And, really, it’s important.

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Some Thoughts on Livestreamed Interviews, Engagement, Book Winners, and Finger Puppets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

that lets anyone with an inexpensive web camera and internet connection to broadcast to the world. I remember my colleague, Jonny Goldstein , launched his show in the fall of 2007 and gave a terrific talk about live streaming technology and web talk shows at Podcamp Boston in 2007. The tool was a live streaming platform called Ustream.tv