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Great reads from around the web on October 14th

Amy Sample Ward

Marketing to Media-Savvy Gen Y: Transparency, Authenticity – Advertising Age – News – "They entered the consumer market during the stormiest economic climate since the Great Depression. " URL Shorteners: Blind(ly) Heading Towards Disaster?

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Outstanding Offers and New Products of 2014 (Bonus: Crossword Puzzle!)

Tech Soup

Continue reading below to learn about the new offers and products we featured this year. or Cary __; gas or train __ ( funding ) Answer. Headsets.com More Headset Options and New Offer. The 400-foot range, 12-hour charge, Skype compatibility, and secure encryption let you move around the office. Get connected.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. It does mean that everyone who is involved in a webinar needs to install Skype – but that seems to be a minor issue, to my mind. But, you can’t use the Skype edition on Linux yet, either.

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Satellite Internet gets the boot

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I can Skype again (once I figure out how to use my USB headset on Linux.) Unfortunately, it is the apparently increasingly dastardly Comcast, but it is so way much better than satellite by Hughesnet , that I can’t really find it in myself to complain. I have to admit to being a very happy camper. {

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SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. At the last minute, we were able to bring them in via video skype, although the connection and AV set did not a lot us to interact through that channel.

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Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Check my Skype status. All this so a bunch of people can tell each other what they are doing. And, I’m sorry, but “ Insert_web.20_new_thing 20_new_thing to change the world!&# just doesn’t cut it for me. Wanna know what I’m doing? Those windows are already open, and I use them everyday.

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Cloud Computing 101: What You Need to Know

NTEN

Skype, Convio Common Ground, Google Apps, Salesforce.com). With cloud computing, many of the hidden costs typically associated with software implementation, customization, hardware, maintenance, and training are rolled into a transparent subscription fee. Platform: The tools vendors use to build applications for nonprofits (e.g.,

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