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Ron McKee

How American-Made Tech Helped Middle Eastern Governments Censor the Internet | Fast Com... - 0 views

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    "How American-Made Tech Helped Middle Eastern Governments Censor the Internet" A new Harvard University study details how American and Canadian companies provided Internet filtering and monitoring software to the Iranian government, Mubarak's Egypt and other repressive states. It's still going on.
Kimberly Case

Public School Tech Inequality - 0 views

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    This article describes the advances that public schools have made in technology in the classroom, and also charts who has access and who does not. For example, how many computers per student are available in one school may vary considerably to a similar school in a poorer district.
Colin Moore

Wikipedia turns 10 - 0 views

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    Wikipedia turns ten years old this month. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that is open to anyone with an internet connection to write on any topic that they see fit. IT is more of a starting place for research on things because of its open user format, but those dedicated to Wikipedia usually come in and remove any nonsense that a person, place, or event may accumulate. The founders of Wikipedia could have easily made a fortune, but in turn decided to make Wikipedia a non-profit, charitable business.
Jason Escareno

The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management - 1 views

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    ""There's way too much made of a couple of acquisitions to make our market seem uncompetitive," said Gene Austin, CEO of Convio in Austin, Texas. "We are all competing in a very healthy way, in a way that fosters innovation and better things for the clients," he said. He pointed to as examples Kintera and Blackbaud, as well as other "small yet emerging organizations that will also bring innovation and competition to the marketplace."
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    Consolidation in the sector will continue to some degree as the firms move toward Software as a Service (SaaS). Major mergers will dictate the direction of cloud computing...
Ron McKee

Dropbox Lack of Security - Miguel de Icaza in a blog posting - 1 views

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    Clarification - the description is an excerpt beginning with the 4th paragraph of the article. Not my words. "My problem is that for as long as I have tried to figure out, Dropbox made some bold claims about how your files were encrypted and how nobody had access to them, with statements like: All transmission of file data occurs over an encrypted channel (SSL). All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES-256) Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files, and when troubleshooting an account they only have access to file metadata (filenames, file sizes, etc., not the file contents)."
anonymous

How a small Nonprofit Made Simple Tech Tweaks and Saved $176,000 - 0 views

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    This article describes how one organization saved thousands on their technology budget by utilizing free services, using video conferences, working from home, and combining services (to name a few).
Carolyn Callery

Fundraising online made easy - 0 views

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    A website dedicated to assisting nonprofits and individuals with a cause in fundraising, creating websites, and gaining volunteers.
Carolyn Callery

Creating videos made easier - 0 views

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    This website lets you create videos with different characters, voices, backgrounds,and your own scripts. Any company, person, or nonprofit can make them. These videos are useful to get information out quickly, and can add humor to information that might not normally gain attention
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