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Giving Season with DipJar

DipJar

Check out this Knowledge Base article to enable SparkVirtual today. Instead of asking a local restaurant, bar, or coffee shop for a “Donate Back” day where the business is expected to donate a portion of their day’s sales, ask them for a few inches of counter space to host your DipJar for the weekend, week, or month.

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Giving Season with DipJar

DipJar

Check out this Knowledge Base article to enable SparkVirtual today. Instead of asking a local restaurant, bar, or coffee shop for a “Donate Back” day where the business is expected to donate a portion of their day’s sales, ask them for a few inches of counter space to host your DipJar for the weekend, week, or month.

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Sun Microsystems and San Francisco's McKinley Elementary School

Tech Soup

While it's recognized that a strong information and communications technology (ICT) foundation is crucial to flourish in a knowledge-based economy, these same school districts often lack the basic resources to ensure that our next generation has those ICT skills and tools.

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Cambodia Bloggers Summit: Social Media Role Play, Social Media Game, and Angkun - Seeds of the Future

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was not enough of a knowledge base of the Web2.0 workshop, I spoke about tagging. I tried very hard to use Cambodian photos and images in the curriculum, but was not able to find something that represented tagging. After the workshop, John Weeks created a Khmer image for tagging using Angkun. tools and ideas.

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First of of all, there is the the appearance of a new and way-out idea that violates the status quo – such as say Local Food – the 100 mile diet. We see the Local Food Movement, Slow Money, Local Resiliency all growing. A million stories about local food or Home schooling on YouTube or on blogs are still fringe. .

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. Why This Matters (to the Public, and hopefully, to You) A public library can grant you access to all kinds of knowledge, but where do you go to add to that knowledge base and stake your claim as an expert?

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Meet ThaRum: Cambodia's Second Most Famous Blogger

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What are some lessons learned for providing local content for local people? What has been the local response to the content you've developed? In another point, it empowers Cambodia to be a knowledge-based and democratic society. Technorati Tags: nptech What was the most interesting part of your job?