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This site is authored by Rosseta Thurman. She is full of ideas on how to run NPO's.

This web page luminates Ohio's initiative to offer virtual maitainence of healthcare and their efforts to make health IT more accessable and usable.

Airline passengers in the United States understand they will be treated as suspected terrorists when going through airport security checkpoints. Yet nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, airport security has become a lot more invasive with the rollout of the so-called "advanced imaging technology" scanners, paid for with $1 billion in stimulus funds. The scanners - now deployed at about 78 airports - use either millimeter wave or backscatter technology to create a virtual picture of the traveler's naked body. The image is then viewed by a screener  with the Transportation Security Agency iin a sequestered room away from the checkpoint.

This article gives five easy ways to draw in members to their organizations using the web.

This site is all about Yugma, signup and use for virtual net meetings... I am still unclear how this integrates with Skype for instance... It is multiple platform capable .... Linux,Mac,Windows and that might prove important.... I was disappointed by a 3 person use maximum however.... This service is a bit more revenue driven than some other cloud services which are easier to get for free

In getting ready to fully utilize social media and online tools for his upcoming campaign, Obama is holding a town hall meeting at Silicon Valley. Facebook users have been sending in their questions for the President and more than 36,000 users have said they will virtually attend the meeting held today that will include Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerburg. Obama will surely utilize social media tools alike Facebook and twitter to get his message out there for next years campaign. This is a great example of participatory government in the context of online social media.

This article explains the strategy and benefits of printing from the cloud platform.

This is like a barcode at a grocery store. However they are images instead of a barcode. These images appear in magazines and in other places and you take a picture with your smart phone and the image links you to a website. Nonprofits use these for advertisements and virtual tours and is free to do.

This is a video for Google Art, which uses the same technology as Streetview to give virtual tours of museums across the world. This allows for the museums to further their reach to those that cannot make the trip to see the exhibits in person.

Is the usage of technolgy benefical to npo? Indeed it is, npo cannot run successfully without it.

It,s important to releazie the sitaution in which we were few before technology arrived. A decade ago, access to technology was limited and wiring schools was one of the nation's highest education priorities. Ten years of substantial investments have vastly improved this picture. therefore, this article has discusses the importance of technology in significan ways. According to the Secretary's Fourth Annual Report on Teacher Quality, virtually every school with access to computers has Internet access (99%), compared to only 35 percent of schools in 1994, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.