A few weeks old but I’m cleaning out my newsreader… Google is opening up its educational tier of Google Apps to nonprofit organizations within the United States. Registered 501c3 nonprofits will be able to use and deploy the educational version of Google Apps, which gives organizations unlimited users, free phone support, API integration, and e-mail… Continue reading Google Apps Office Suite For Non Profits
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New York Times On The Digital Divide
Here’s a great article in the New York Times detailing the lack of internet infrastructure in Africa: Attempts to bring affordable high-speed Internet service to the masses have made little headway on the continent. Less than 4 percent of Africa’s population is connected to the Web; most subscribers are in North African countries and the… Continue reading New York Times On The Digital Divide
Earth2Tech- New Blog About Technology, Innovation, and Climate Change
There’s a new blog on our radar– To put it cogently, Earth2Tech is a blog that covers green tech. The new blog published by the Gigaom team was covered in this weekend’s New York Times. The blog is “devoted to the business of clean technologies, its innovations and everything else,†he explained on his main… Continue reading Earth2Tech- New Blog About Technology, Innovation, and Climate Change
OLPC Used To Surf Porn
When the idea of the OLPC was introduced to the public, many naysayers said that the computers would be used to fuel 419 scams and other non-educational habits. Fast forward to today and we have our first report that school children in Nigeria are using the OLPC to browse for porn. The computers will now… Continue reading OLPC Used To Surf Porn
GreenDimes Helps Reduce Junk Mail By Up To 90%
GreenDimes is a new service that aims to reduce the amount of junk mail for their members: GreenDime’s site says it has “tens of thousands of members†and the annual fee is $36 per year (a dime a day). For that price the company says it will reduce your junk mail by a 75% to… Continue reading GreenDimes Helps Reduce Junk Mail By Up To 90%
Catching Up Links
This has been a busy summer for me so here’s a collection of relevant links from the past week. Posting will be light for the next few weeks. Wal-Mart extends financial services to low-income customers. The world’s largest retailer will sell prepaid payment cards at over 3300 of its discount stores in the U.S. Link.… Continue reading Catching Up Links
Weekend Reading: PR for Philantropy, Societal Value of Corporations
From Business Week: Philanthropic outfits increasingly are adopting PR programs to achieve their goals. Here’s why some old PR objections are no longer valid Link. From Conde Nast Portfolio: Indeed, the likes of Robert Barro, writing in the WSJ yesterday, go one further. Never mind Bill Gates’s personal philanthropy, he says, the real good that… Continue reading Weekend Reading: PR for Philantropy, Societal Value of Corporations
Weekend Reading: Small Companies That Try to Bring Innovative Technology to Teaching
“A revolution is needed in education — students exist in a world where technology is pervasive but classroom teaching hasn’t basically changed in 50 years,†said Mona Westhaver, a founder of Inspiration Software, a Portland area firm that developed a visual learning system for kindergarten through 12th grade. Link to NY Times.
Weekend Reading: How To Set Up A Non-Profit
Via Guy Kawasaki’s blog, here’s a story about how a non-profit, FROG, was created using online resources. Here’s the short list of resources used: PBWiki, Gmail, Google Apps, YouSendIt, LiveMeeting, Skype, GoDaddy, Blogger, WordPress, FormAssembly, Craigslist, Upcoming.org, Eventful, Idealist, Reactee, Flickr, Facebook, Technorati, Feedburner, Change.org, and Paypal.
Weekend Reading: What Does Africa Need Most: Tech or Aid?
Here’s an article in the New York Times covering the TED conference in Africa. But beyond this Panglossian message, however much a corrective to the common images of African misery and however flattering to the pride of TED’s African attendees, was something that everyone at the conference knew (and which I saw every morning on… Continue reading Weekend Reading: What Does Africa Need Most: Tech or Aid?