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The world gets smaller with digital magazines

Judi Sohn

Zinio recently improved the experience of reading magazines online to the point that I rarely download new issues anymore unless I’m somewhere that my internet connection is slow. The only time when I know we’re not in Kansas anymore is when a price is listed in Euros.

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23 Things Online Summit Tomorrow

Tech Soup

This event is a special collaboration among WebJunction , the MaintainIT Project , the State Library of Kansas , and the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. Tools Social Networking E-Learning Community Tech Centers Software Digital Divide Using the Web and Internet. Tags: Web Building Web 2.0 Register now! ( Tools Web 2.0

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NTC Day of Service: Our Tenth Year!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This annual event started over a decade ago in Kansas City as a way for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community by volunteering their expertise for a day. Tags: 10ntc. My colleague, Cheryl Hanback , has been involved since the beginning and I'm lucky every year to host the Day of Service with her.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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This and That

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

We talked about the work of my company Members Only Software, and how I see emerging Internet technologies impacting the non-profit arena. Dave King is the acting director of IT at the Kansas City public library. Tags: nptech , net2 It was a really enjoyable, rambling conversation.

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"Leveling the Playing Field" Through Broadband and Public Computers

NTEN

Calvin Osborne, an attorney with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), underscored the urgency in improving broadband -- essentially fast Internet access -- to keep the US from lagging behind other nations. The Kansas City IT department is "trying to get access into community centers," he added. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While some have a Utopian vision of the Internet as the Great Integrator, or Ultimate Public Space, boyd cautioned against this naïve illusion and pushes us to work harder to cross the digital divide. (My Tags: guest blogging. My teammate and fellow attendee Jake Samuelson has more on boyd’s talk in the following post.). (My

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