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One Laptop, two systems - The Boston Globe

AFP Blog

One Laptop, two systems - The Boston Globe: "THE GOAL of the nonprofit One Laptop per Child project has always been exciting: build a cheap, sturdy laptop and give it to poor children in developing countries to improve their educations.".

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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: !

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Good Ram Gone Bad On My Dell Desktop: OMG

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The latter is annoying, but I could fix that blue screen of death and by reinstalling the operating system. I got smarter along the way and mirrored the operating system so I didn't have to reinstall everything and I have all my data backed up either on a local hard drive (three copies) and online. I don't need this to happen to me.

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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

Sharing passwords, shadow IT—and for those who don’t know what “shadow IT” is, essentially, it’s staff members, users, basically going out and evaluating and purchasing and implementing IT applications, programs, systems that have not been approved or been reviewed by anyone in either management or the executive level. It’s very important.

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