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Of Mice and Men and Laptops (A Kind of Buyer's Guide)

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Gavin Clabaugh, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation I walked up the aisle, hat down, eyes shadowed. That's how many different laptops there were on display at my local Best Buy (not counting the Pommes de Cher ). On a laptop, it might be seen as yet another sign of the impending apocalypse.

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All About NTEN in 5 Minutes

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Last week, I was fortunate enough to present a session on social media with Marnie Webb of TechSoup Global, Laura Norvig of ETR Associates, Matt Sharp from the Packard Foundation, and Matt Dunne at Google. Tags: ncvs NPTech NTEN video. I think it's fair to say that we rocked! It doesn't take much. .

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The good folks at Care2 (Heather Holdridge, Justin Perkins, and James O'Malley) have a detailed case study on the NTEN blog about the top Facebook winner of the recent Case Foundation America's Giving Challenge. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Things We Like (April 2010)

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Tags: Newsletter NPTech NTEN Things We Like. If you have a new Bon Jovi t-shirt, there's nothing we can do to help you. It currently has fully-searchable information on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages, right down to the ships' captains. The last cat-related video site you'll ever need. Okay, fine, here's one more.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

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Brett Meyer, NTEN. The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

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Dreamforce 2008 post-mortem - back to the cheap seats

Judi Sohn

The afternoon keynote focused on philanthropy and bigger thinking than the latest Dell laptop, featuring Google’s Larry Brilliant and author Malcolm Gladwell. I can’t thank the Salesforce Foundation enough for making us feel so welcome. Tuesday night, the Foundation hosted a nonprofit networking event at the Starlight Room.

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Collecting Data in Low Resource Areas: How to Get Started

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You are funded to do this by a US foundation. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. People can fear or mistrust or envy someone walking around with a laptop or a PDA. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program. These efforts have met with mixed success. Mobile phones.