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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

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Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." A Sickening Discovery.

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." A Sickening Discovery.

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. … your laptop is really your only friend." A Sickening Discovery.

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Jay Dedman Will Teach A Video Blogging Workshop in New Orleans and My Old Video Camera Will Find A New Home!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The rest of the line up includes the installation of a wireless network project at the Community Center of St. Participants are asked to bring their laptop computer and video camera so that they can learn on their own equipment. Disclosure: This is a paid gig I do to coordinate the event and have done for the past 7 years).

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Using Google Hangout, you can switch between slides and camera, although when you are in slide mode, you can’t see the remote participants. The Google Hangout was projected on the screen. We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location.

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Opening Session at NASSCOM and Social Innovation Winners

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was lucky enough to have a front row seat in the reserved section with laptop and digital camera in hand to cover the opening ceremonies on Twitter. . It showcases projects that demonstrate best practices in technology in the area of social change. Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India.

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