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More donation woes

I walked into the school on Monday for a few meetings and found a letter in my box from an upset community member whose computer donations had been turned down. At the end of the last school year, we set a no-donation policy, since we had actually managed to...

Tags: Donations, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-11

No more donations for me.

My last monster load of dead hardware was being taken away for recycling over the holiday break, making way for the new hardware that will be arriving in a month or so. Were keeping plenty of monitors and the better PCs are being distributed around the school as either...

Tags: computer, donation, K-12, Donations, Education Technology

Blog posts 2006-12-28

Additional Resources

Techies choose Obama - by a landslide

If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...

Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-05

'Inside Web 2.0' – A Newbie’s View

'Inside Web 2.0' – A Newbie’s ViewWeb2 for WeboneitesHow i percieve web 2 is vastly different to those who dabble in it regularly and use it as part of their daily world. I have concerns about putting ones personal life out there for all to see and about people not...

Tags: Channel management, S-View, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girl

McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlEnough already!We get it! Anybody that is supporting John McCain is bad and anybody supporting Barrack Obama is good. You have sufficiently established your liberal credentials.RE: McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlMcCain wants something acutally ONLINE?...

Tags: John McCain, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Chilling data from the Arctic

Chilling data from the ArcticSo much hyperbole, so little factPolar bear populations are on the rise. It's stupid to think that the polar bear is so unadaptable that it can't handle a decrease in ice floes. They'll just hunt from shore. Life adapts.BTW, the sea ice is the SECOND lowest...

Tags: Polar Bear population, Arctic, bear, lake, ice

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

Interview: Alex Sokirynsky developer of Podcaster

Last night I interviewed Alex Sokirynsky developer of Podcaster on the PowerPage Podcast (he joins in at around the 16:15 mark). It's an interesting listen and I encourage you to check out his excellent app before Apple decides to shut him down. Sokirynsky's Podcaster app was denied entry into the...

Tags: Developer, Distribution, Sokirynsky, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Banned App Podcaster forced underground (updated)

Late last week Apple denied distribution through the App Store for an iPhone version of Podcaster an application that allows you to subscribe, manage, stream and download podcasts directly ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Podcaster, Podcasts, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-15

Social design advice for Starbucks

Starbucks announced today it will begin a daily "Good Sheet" of news about politics, health care and other issues that it will distribute in its stores as a way to start conversations. According to a Starbucks executive quoted by The Motley Fool, the company is looking for "conversation starters." It...

Tags: Starbucks Corp., Store, Good Sheet Experiment, Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Digital Music, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-08

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?

The One Laptop Per Child OLPC program will begin selling its XO laptop via Amazon this year in a reprise of its Give One Get One (G1G1) program, according to Ars Technica and several other outlets. Although the Ars piece paints this a real boon for OLPC, whose G1G1...

Tags: Developing Country, Amazon.com Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'

Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'Very strong words...RE: Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'how did this music get to the web? everything that gets to the web should be free! go after the persons who do the uploading not the down loaders. it got there some how. how...

Tags: Piracy, album poster, Rot, RIAA, Cogill

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Slash to album poster: 'Rot in jail'

You might question why illegally posting an unreleased album on your website should put you in federal penitentiary for three years, but Guns 'n' Roses guitarist Slash doesn't. "I hope he rots in jail," said Slash, the former Guns N' Roses...

Tags: Resource, Attorney, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?

Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?Medical device development in MassachusettsSpeaking as a member of the orthopedic medical device industry, it is our hope that the regulatory process will allow input from industry to develop reasonable disclosure guidelines without stifling activities that are beneficial to Massachusetts healthcare consumers. Below is an abbreviated...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, medical device, S. 2863, medical device industry, health care, manufacturer, industry

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Do you know where your computers are being recycled?

Do you know where your computers are being recycled?Good storyIf this were a story about Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux there'd be a hundred posters yelling at each other by now. It isn't, it's just a really significant issue that affects people here rather directly... we're all using computers, that...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, One-Man, computer, Basel

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Omega Church (exe)

The Omega Church is a full record management tool designed for use in churches of any size or denomination. Omega helps you keep track of contacts, families, relationships, donations, funds, gift aid, involvements, categories, pastoral visitations and much, much more. Powerful and yet easy to use, the Omega System is...

Tags: Church, GCD Technologies, Omega Church, Workforce Management, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-07-24

What people hate most about health insurance

What people hate most about health insurancetry medicaid if you want a real headacheIf you think your paid insurance is bad, try living on SS or SSI, yet being expected to make co-pays on everything they can find to ding you on, it may sound like no big deal if...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, health insurance

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Bookmark this: Three Web sites to aid the green cause

"EcoSearch this" doesn't have quite the same ring as "Google this," but the non-profit is hoping to harness the power of the Google search engine to help raise money for environmental non-profits including the Sierra Club, TreePeople, RainForest Alliance, National Resource Defense Council, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child, Healthy World...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-19

Voting For A McCain

SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons So, poor John McCain. At the start of the year, he gets bounced around because he is "not well versed" in economics. In summer, he gets beat up again, because he says he is "illiterate" about technology (and the way he expresses...

Tags: Innovation, Network, John McCain, Obama, Taxes, Free Trade, Internet, Leadership, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4

Something about getting a new neck earlier this spring made me start thinking about how to change my life to make America a better place. Here a few that you can try to make the country better over the Fourth of July weekend: 1.) Turn off your...

Tags: Phone, PC, Cell Phone, Computer, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Obama benefits from the Net's election power

The Internet has fundamentally changed the second most important aspect of elections: money. In fact, writes Tom Regan in the Christian Science Monitor's "Innovation" column, if not for Internet fundraising, Barack Obama would not be the Democratic nominee. In a year when he continues to break all fundraising records,...

Tags: Network, Benefit, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-18