TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I uploaded a gallery of dance photos I shot at a recent Lindy by the Lake dance event in Oakland, and let Facet do its thing. “As you edit an image and layer on those changes, we analyze every edit and we figure out how to transfer that across a much larger content library, building you your presets automatically.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Because of where we live, I can walk to the grocery store, drug store, post office, gym, library, doctor's office, and the BART, which will take me into San Francisco, where I can walk some more. I'm a big walker. One resource its member organizations have requested is high quality images of biking and walking to use in their communications.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. Curated by library staff and educators, the app lets users search by title, author, genre, or list.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2014

TechSoup Global and Tech Impact are teaming up to do a series of free one-day events for charities and libraries in September called Office 365 Roadshows. Thursday, September 18 th in Oakland. We'll also report back after the Oakland event to share what we learned. Office 365 Roadshows Coming to America. Register here.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Just a few weeks ago, we put out the call to nonprofits and libraries in the United States and Canada to demonstrate how their innovative use of Adobe software acquired through the TechSoup product donation program helped them change lives, communities, and the world for the better. Other Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I Love Libraries Mission: "Friends of I Love Libraries was created to provide a means for library advocates to strengthen grassroots efforts in support of America’s libraries. People's Grocery Mission: "Our mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community."

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

From protecting sensitive data to maintaining a positive social media reputation, Internet safety is of immense importance to nonprofits, charities, and public libraries. Oakland, CA. Join the Conversation. By sharing online safety tips, we hope that together we can make the Internet a friendlier place. Safety Wisdom. " - Becky W.,

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

They also help demonstrate the human impact of nonprofits' and libraries' work. Whether you need permission to post photos you take for your library or charity depends on how they will be used and if the people in the pictures can be identified. Images bring life and interest to anything. You can indeed.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2013

Events like ReWrite Oakland (read Sarah Washburn of TechSoup for Libraries/Caravan Studios' recap of the event here ) and the [freespace] hackathon in San Francisco were more focused on swapping ideas than programming. Not all hackathons are coding-centric. Diverse skillsets are valued.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2014

TechSoup Global and Tech Impact are teaming up to do a series of free one-day events for charities and libraries in September called Office 365 Roadshows. Thursday, September 18 th in Oakland. Here's a chance to find out what Office 365 is, how it can benefit your nonprofit, and what it takes to implement it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines. Hold an annual fundraising event with readings and signings by local writers to benefit a literacy program at a school, nonprofit or library, or to give a grant to an aspiring local writer. . • Be a community gathering space.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

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. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. It is a social venture of the Oakland-based employment training nonprofit Stride Center. Windows MultiPoint Server. is a thin client or shared resource computing.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

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. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Sergio Medina, an attendee from the nonprofit Covenant House in Oakland, California said that events like these are a great way to get connected to the technology community.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). The Haarlem Oost library book drops are one example, but I'm sure you have seen or created others. On Wednesday, it's my birthday. Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. Not so in Oakland. Mai-ling Garcia, the city of Oakland's online engagement manager, put it succinctly: "We're not here to build applications for you, we're here to build applications with you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. We're choosing a one half-square mile region of Oakland. We're going to choose a region of Oakland that has all the criteria of the buildings we're looking to show.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 18, 2008

Personally, I'd like to start volunteering at my local library. Aside from school and home, I probably spent more time at my local library while I was growing up than anywhere else. It makes me sad that the Oakland public libraries are so under-funded.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

And Felt, a new Oakland-based startup co-founded by Sam Hashemi and Can Duruk , is on a mission to make the medium more mainstream. A user can open a map of California, for example, and then turn to Felt’s data library to add information about bits like wildfires and smoke patterns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. So, go through your book collection and take books to the library or a used book store, or pass them on to someone on the street, or whatever. I'd been in the hospital five times in three months, or something like that. My marriage was under a lot of stress because of all of this.

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