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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This concept has been pioneered by the Internet Archive with its Open Library can lend a digital copy of a book for a period of time as long as it (or a partner library) owns a physical copy of that book which it holds back from being lent to someone else. These were the days when people had just one PC at home. That will be equality!

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is major emphasis on what is possible when ingenuity, 11K gb internet connections and collaborative teams intersect. that their tech chops have landed them in the I.S. For more information, here’s the Campus Party Wikipedia Page and here’s a BBC report on a Brazilian Campus Party.). They haven’t arrived yet.

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6 Technology Concepts Nonprofits Need to Understand in 2018

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Over the last decade the discussion around nonprofit technology ( #nptech ) has primarily been social media, mobile technology, and online fundraising, however as the internet enters its next phase, nonprofits need to better understand some of the more complicated concepts that will shape the internet and its use in the decades to come.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

What’s the use of being in San Francisco if you can’t check out some cutting edge tech conferences now and then? 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. Wikipedia article on smartglasses.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) The paper goes on to describe five general patterns: Birds of a feather flock together: nodes link together because of common attributes, goals or governance. What information can a social network analysis software tool provide that simple low tech method cannot?

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. . Please keep in mind .

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.