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Determined to Trend - Guest Post by James Leventhal

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Local Oakland Tweeter @trafficologist Standing Beside Her Profile Pic in the Twitterstream. When the New de Young opened it did a 32-hour party and community celebration , starting a trend that was then picked up by the Contemporary Jewish Museum with Dawn in 2008 and now the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA).

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iPads for Emergencies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

CARD is a nonprofit agency, based in Oakland California. There are also hundreds of useful apps that CARD staff can use as first responders in emergencies. iPads will also help CARD be a more efficient and connected non-profit. Want to donate your iPad? More information here.

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Closing the Loop Between Social Media and Offline Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was in Oakland, CA and discovered Fenton's Creamery , famous for its ice cream. The line was out the door. Lines are good because you can contemplate that important decision: What flavor?

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Baseball and your Learning Organization

Gyrus

Though it may not be the most attractive trend in the learning industry, there is something to be said about the wealth of information that is available to Learning Professionals across the board. However, the outcome I chose to focus on was staring me in the face this entire time. Statistics are not just limited to the baseball field.

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Can You Use Your Own Photos on Your Website? Maybe Not

Tech Soup

One undeniable trend is that people are increasingly attracted to images and videos and much less interested in unadorned text. Images bring life and interest to anything. They also help demonstrate the human impact of nonprofits' and libraries' work. But can you get in trouble by posting images of people without their consent?

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. The Future of Refurbishment.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. The Future of Refurbishment.