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Culture, Community, and Technology—A Successful 2022 Convergence

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From “How to Become the Most Interesting Person in the Room” to “Connecting Membership Dollars to Outcomes,” an afternoon of 12 additional flash presentations left us with a goodie bag brimming with ideas to apply to our work. You need to constantly update your personal GPS to the current coordinates.”. Watching, Listening, Learning.

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Burlington Public Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. Burlington Public Library was one of our test installation sites. It is a medium-sized library about 60 miles north of Seattle in northern Washington State. Adobe Flash Player. Adobe Reader.

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DIAGRAM Center

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash!

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Why I Do Good: Starry Night

Have Fun - Do Good

Even though I was studying and doing things related to social justice, I ended up writing my senior thesis about the holistic health movement as a social movement, and my most transformative moment came from reading in the library one night about the Atman , or "world soul" in The Upanishads for a History of Religion class.

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Voices from the Community: Security

Tech Soup

TechSoup's Security forum is full of great threads focused on specific anti-virus and privacy software for nonprofits, libraries, and other mission-based organizations and programs. Ban flash drive use to prevent viruses? Preventing viruses when flash drive use is necessary and frequent.

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Hands-On with the Google Cr-48 Notebook

Tech Soup

Last month, I blogged about the Google Chrome notebook , evaluating its potential applicability to the nonprofit and library sectors. Content sites, using Flash technology, worked and responded quickly, even the online version of Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Express Editor. Here are some observations so far: read more.

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SlideRocket Launches iPad Presentation App

Tech Soup

So even when you're offline, you can still tell your nonprofit or library's story with SlideRocket. You can add flash animation, audio narration, YouTube videos, and polls to your presentations. Read an introduction to SlideRocket's features for nonprofits and libraries, from TechSoup's Patrick Duggan.

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