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October, Oct 28, 2008
Google, Publishers, and Authors Settle Huge Lawsuit Over Book-Scanning Project »
Deal to unlock millions of texts.
Blackboard Announces Free Tool to Interconnect Its Software With Moodle, an Open-Source Competitor »
Students will be able to view course materials made with Moodle using Blackboard’s interface.
October, Oct 27, 2008
Nonprofits: Get Out the Vote! »
The big election is just around the corner and your nonprofit can help get out the vote to ensure that everyone has a voice. The Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network has some great and easy tips for helping your community to vote on November 4.
Take Our Survey and Reduce Paper Use »
This November, GreenTech is hosting a campaign to drive down paper usage. Nonprofits and public libraries, we challenge you to reduce your paper usage by making five concrete changes within your organization. If you take our challenge and send us your brief story, you will be eligible to win a free MyFax account so that you can start sending and receiving electronic faxes to help you further reduce your paper consumption.
Why Google’s Green Energy Programs Matter to Nonprofits »
How one technology giant is working to change industry computing standards to reduce their carbon footprint, partner with nonprofit and corporate leaders, and change the world.
What if . . . Your Nonprofit Could Save Valuable Resources »
With Xcelsius Engage 2008, you can easily create visually interactive “what-if” models from sources like Excel spreadsheets to forecast the financial impact of reducing certain expenses. Anyone in your organization can evaluate multiple scenarios and immediately see the results. Head over to TechSoup Stock to read more about
Xcelsius Engage
,
generously donated by Business Objects.
What Type of Blog Should Your Nonprofit Write? »
This Wednesday’s Webinar:
Blogging for Nonprofits:
Tips, Traps and Tales
October 29, 2008
1:00 p.m. Eastern
(10:00 a.m. Pacific)
Get the details and register
Let’s assume for a minute that your nonprofit should write a blog in the first place (more on that question some other time). What kind of blog should you write?
You’ll find different categories of blogs, including a color-coded [...]
HIPS HIPS Hooray for proactive detection »
This morning looking through the customer submissions to Sophos (how to submit samples). I saw a sample with the ‘Rule or identity name triggered by this file (if applicable)’ form filled in as HIPS/RegMon-009.
Looking at SophosLabs automated scans of this sample it was a malicious AutoIT file. Running the file through the automated replication rigs [...]
Tech Therapy: An Interview with Educause’s President, Diana Oblinger »
Wondering what you might see when Educause kicks off tomorrow in Orlando? Wondering what the higher-ed technology organization is planning to do in the future?
Show, Don’t Tell: Google Earth Outreach for Nonprofits »
Since the earliest days of world exploration, maps have told compelling stories to people who may never see the places depicted. Topographical lines on paper only go a small way to recreate the traveller’s experience, however, and the rest depends on the viewers’ imagination. Now, personalized and interactive maps are stretching those boundaries, and helping nonprofits to bring their messages home. Hundreds of millions of people now use Google Earth and Google Maps to explore the world around them....(read more)
New kit, but with an achilles heel »
For the last couple of weeks, I have been watching a series of new, related web attack sites surfacing. All follow a similar modus operandi, with an attack site exploiting a bundle of client-side vulnerabilities, some of which are pretty old:
MDAC (MS06-014)
NCTAudioFile2.AudioFile ActiveX control (CVE-2007-0018)
Snapshot Viewer (MS08-041)
MSDDS (MS05-052)
Visual Studio MSMask32 (CVE-2008-3704)
Adobe Acrobat Reader (CVE-2007-5659)
Nothing hugely [...]
Top Tech-Smart Community Colleges Get Ranked »
The Center for Digital Education has released a list of top tech-savvy community colleges
Basics - You Know About Backups. Now, Do It Online »
“My wife’s computer crashed first,” lamented Francis Wade. Then his followed a few weeks later, as if part of some malicious digital conspiracy.
Web 2.0 has crept into the everyday work place, FaceTime reports »
Internet applications have almost entirely penetrated the work place, with 97 percent of respondents to a new survey being released today saying they use at least one Internet application. That’s up from 85 percent a year ago, according to FaceTime, which makes work place monitoring software.
With Smartphones, Cher Wang Made Her Own Fortune »
Ms. Wang is one of the most powerful female executives in technology whom you have never heard of. The company she founded, the HTC Corporation, makes one out of every six smartphones sold in the United States, most of which are marketed under brands like Palm and Verizon.
New worm feeds on latest Microsoft bug »
One day after Microsoft issued a rare emergency Windows security patch, the bad guys have a few new ways to take advantage of the bug.
New Book by Educause Explores Impact of ‘Cloud Computing’ on Colleges »
Leaders in college technology look at “what is possible and what is becoming possible.”
October, Oct 26, 2008
Attend Free Webinars! »
The
MaintainIT Project
publishes free content about maintaining public computers and produces many free webinars each month. From technology training tips, to new Cookbook chapters, learn something new in 30 minutes. Spend 20 minutes this week learning about the
soon-to-be-released Cookbook
!
Do You Have a Mobile Innovation Idea for Good? »
Participate in the
2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge
, brought to you by NetSquared and the Global Development Commons. The first place winner will receive a grant of $10,000, the two runner-ups will receive grants of $5,000 each. To view, comment on, or star in a project visit the
USAID Project Gallery
. To submit a project please
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login
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Reach Outside Your Fishbowl to Build Community »
5 Ways to Find Community Members From Outside Your Fishbowl
October, Oct 24, 2008
Engineers Succeed in Starting Backup Computer on Hubble Telescope »
The wide-field planetary camera, the telescope’s main imaging device, could resume sending pictures as early as tomorrow.
Sabato Uses YouTube to Encourage Students to Vote »
The director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia encourages students to become more familiar with the political process and system.
Wired Campus TV: 3 High-Tech Teaching Tips »
Video report features community-college professors talking about technology in the classroom.
Virtual Network Planned to Connect American and African Universities »
The network is aimed at developing partnerships that will strengthen African universities and further economic development in Africa.
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