Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

American Literacy is Iffy. We couldn’t have a language without them. Use the Active Voice. But first drafts are notorious for using a passive voice (i.e., Reading on screens (laptops and smartphones) is such a unique user experience that the “how” becomes almost as important as the “what.” Cut “To Be” Verbs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. How can we use them as a test of how things are going at the conference? How can we play further with the distance between those up there - on the podium and those in the audience?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The doll takes a child's words and sends them over the Internet to cloud based voice-recognition software that can create the perfect response. Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce. Children love it. The privacy concerns are huge, though.

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