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Tips for Remote Presenting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic. I thought we could use the chat back channel but since there was only laptop in the room we needed another system for backchannel communication. The body language code was as follows: ! audience is engaged (leaning forward in their chairs). ?

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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

see those pink arrows) This took about an hour on the phone with the technical support guy at Dell who walked through opening up the CPU and swapping out the four bars of RAM and rebooting. It looks like one of the ram sockets on the motherboard is fried. I don't need this to happen to me.

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LinkedIn: The MySpace for Adults

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

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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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

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? Say you’re allowing employees to access email on their personal mobile phone. So that’s an example.

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