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Culture, Community, and Technology—A Successful 2022 Convergence

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Our headliners, Tiffany Kerns and Al Dea, provided unique perspectives on the intersection of culture and technology. You can’t use an old map to explore a new world,” is wisdom from Albert Einstein that Al uses to explain his perspective on navigating change. “To The “fun stuff” at Solutions Day.

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Terms and Trends in DIY and Open Source Online Maps

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Implementing truly gorgeous online maps still requires some custom code and technical know-how – but, the cost and learning curve involved has dropped considerably. Online maps provide a concrete, quickly digestible way to drive home the connection between your organization's work and where it takes place. ThinkShout.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

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last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. It also can map turn-by-turn directions for you.

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6 Great Interactive Data Visualization Tools (Part 1)

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Websites are loaded with eye candy these days — from slick user interfaces to interactive maps to cool photo slideshows — all achieved without Flash, just HTML, CSS and Javascript. And these technologies are free, open and can be utilized in essentially every current web-browsing device.

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Reverse Engineering the Nissan Leaf's Range Display

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

About halfway to Palo Alto, Jim did a quick calculation with his smartphone using Google Maps: he figured we would run out of juice about at the middle of the Dumbarton Bridge , the southernmost bridge over the San Francisco Bay. Low and behold, just after passing the apex of the bridge, the display flashed and our range went dark.

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Vote for DataMasher in Apps for America 2

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The result displays in table format as well as visualized on an interactive, "heat," Flash-based map of the United States. Tags: Communication Government Transparency Strategy Technology. We conceived "DataMasher" -- a web application that allows users to "mash-up" two sets of state data using an operator of their choice.

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Stay Connected with Donated Smartphones from Dell

Tech Soup

Bing Maps: a mobile app for finding locations, mapping directions, and predicting traffic conditions; it can also integrate with other online services to overlay data on top of maps. inch touch screen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard; 8 GB or storage; five-megapixel camera; GPS; and full Adobe Flash support.