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Save the Internet, Save the World

NTEN

I challenge anyone to try to get through the INS process in one hour, the time limit many public libraries put on Internet use.). Their two choices (if they're lucky) are: in the school or at the public library. Right now there are decisions being made in your town, in your state, and in Washington DC that could change the Internet.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

How can you change or adopt aspects of other types without losing your focus or mission? I’m thinking of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is trying to be a museum for people, but is also a national and collection-based place. So museums have stuff, and I want to dip in and out like I do at the library.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Nancy Roach, a cancer survivor and vocal advocate living in Oregon pulled a group of us together to build a national organization focused solely on change and the needs of the colorectal cancer patient. Keep a library of training materials. There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

Nancy Roach, a cancer survivor and vocal advocate living in Oregon pulled a group of us together to build a national organization focused solely on change and the needs of the colorectal cancer patient. Keep a library of training materials. There's a tiny fine line between collaboration and distraction.

Lesson 96
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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

Tech Soup

She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries. ” Khan Academy’s comprehensive library of content covers a full primary school curriculum plus classes in math, and science including biology, chemistry, and physics. Peter Campbell.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. I then zipped down to DC for three days. I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. And much more… Washington, D.C. So, we fill in for them.

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