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An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

Ars Technica

Credit: Rama & Muse Bolo (Wikipedia/Creative Commons), steve lodefink (Wikipedia/Creative Commons), The Computer Museum @ System Source In those days, computers took up entire rooms, and users accessed them through teletype terminalselectric typewriters hooked up to either a serial cable or a modem and a phone line.

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Wikipedia is getting its first desktop redesign in 10 years

The Verge

Image: Wikipedia. Wikipedia has been an integral part of web culture for nearly twenty years, letting users browse its millions of text-heavy, crowd-sourced encyclopedia entries from their computer, tablet, or phone. Image: Wikipedia. Image: Wikipedia. This will make it much easier to navigate longer pages!

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. A mobile app that allows you easily conduct mobile searches by simply speaking into your phone using their new “Speak Now&# technology. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An excellent source of images is to take them yourself with your digital camera or mobile phone camera. If you practice some the basic photography rules , you should be able to DIY some good images for your content strategy.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. A mobile app that allows you easily conduct mobile searches by simply speaking into your phone using their new “Speak Now” technology. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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Social CRM, part 2: Metrics vs. CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

From Wikipedia : Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. And these tools are great at doing CRM with the standard communications methods – email, phone, snail mail, in person contact.

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