AFP Blog

JULY 27, 2009

Slum children go digital in Johannesburg - Passport - Boston.com: "JOHANNESBURG -- With the help of a little green-and-white plastic laptop, two Boston sisters are changing the way a handful of South African slum kids think about their future -- and the world around them.The Kliptown squatter camp, occupying a small corner of Johannesburg’s Soweto, (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2006

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.). was also able to set it up on my husband's laptop. We finally arrived after 8 hours on the road, documented with my treo cameraphone and emailed to flickr. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. " I found article via a post from Maura Welch who writes the business filter blog on the Boston Globe site.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

The road trippers also made stops for advocacy events in Boston and New York before concluding in Washington DC. Since the original solar panels that President Carter had installed in the 70’s ended up on top of the cafeteria at Unity College in Maine, the Put Solar on It US tour began there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. I should have thought more about using my laptop and the projector. What worked? What didn't? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. Observations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. Take for example the upcoming podcamp in Boston that is using a wiki for registration, program planning, note taking, and virtually all the logistical details or any of the barcamp gatherings.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

And I said, well, what if somebody wants to watch Netflix on their company laptop? But if it’s eight o’clock in the evening, and I’ve got my organization laptop at home, and I want to watch Netflix, like, who cares, right? And I’ve been noticing that that was starting when we started bringing laptops to meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The venue, a historic theater with small table seating, made it feel more like a cafe except everyone in the audience had a laptop or hand held device for blogging, taking notes, and tweeting. Adam Zand who I first met at Boston Social Media Breakfast event last holiday season where we helped leverage a donation for the local Food Bank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

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. She booted up her laptop, plugged into my Internet connection, and set up her Webcam. Chris Pirillo comes to mind.

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