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Absolutely. In today's market, where job openings are far and few inbetween, it would certainly benefit you to do some volunteer work. How so? Skills: What better way to keep your skills sharpened or learn new ones? I can't think of a better forum to learn about new software and updated networks...
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We are hearing strong calls for "video conferencing" capabilities from our field sites spread out across the state. It sounds like people have been a utility such as Skype to conference with friends and family and some feel it would be a valuable replacement for the typical conference call...
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Just thought I'd see how hard it has been for people to try out Second Life. We just published a TechSoup GreenTech blog post called <a href="http://blog.techsoup.org/node/765"> 'Second Life, a Second Opinion'</a> in which our Monica Skinner struggled to get situated...
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We are considering purchasing Ready Talk and would like to hear some feedback from anyone familiar with the web conferencing software. Your feedback is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Does anyone have any experience with video conferencing? This has started coming up more and more as a possible initiative for the upcoming year (with the current state of the economy and travel budgets being cut) and its something I know almost nothing about. It seems you can either do conferencing...
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Are you ready to take your work group to another level. Try DimDim.com This online Meeting place it quick and easy. And did I mention Free. I tested out the other night and it worked Great. I can not wait to start using it for online Group meeting. Let me know what you think about it:)
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Volunteer management expert Susan Ellis has a great hot topic this month on her web site, both as text and a podcast: Is the Rising Cost of Gas a Crisis or an Opportunity for Volunteering? She talks about, among other things, ways that volunteer managers could (and should) be using networking tech to...
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My organization is looking at possibly purchasing a service such as Webex, Microsoft Live Meeting or GoToWebinar/GoToMeeting. They currently use Webex for some webinars that are setup by a partner organization and like it. However, it is quite expensive ($18K for an unlimited plan). Does anyone out there...
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The newest Web2.0 and Video technology is live broadcasting. There's a web video show called "justin.tv" where Justin had a live webcam attached to a hat on his head and he broadcasts 24 hours a day. A new site was just launched, called ustream that allows you live broadcast yourself using...
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For those who like to (or have to) host web meeting on platforms such as WebEx and GoToMeeting, there is an open source application called dimdim that's raised some eyebrows with it's alpha release. While not finished yet, it's still very polished and professional, and with the exception...