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- 18% of Obama supporters likely to sign an online petition
- Among those who go online, Obama supporters are more likely to sign an online petition (18% have done so, compared with 11% of McCain supporters), sign up to receive emails from the candidates or campaigns (17% vs. 8%), contribute money online (13% vs. 5%), to post their own political commentary...
- Tags: petition, volunteer, e-mail, online communications, nb
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- 18% of Obama supporters likely to sign an online petition
- Among those who go online, Obama supporters are more likely to sign an online petition (18% have done so, compared with 11% of McCain supporters), sign up to receive emails from the candidates or campaigns (17% vs. 8%), contribute money online (13% vs. 5%), to post their own political commentary...
- Tags: petition, volunteer, e-mail, online communications, nb
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Magic mushrooms to treat cancer anxiety?
- In a 2006 study, U.S. researchers have shown that psilocybin, a substance contained in 'sacred mushrooms,' produced substantial spiritual effects -- when administered under controlled conditions. The scientists recently interviewed the volunteer subjects and they've noted that most of them 'continued to say 14 months later that the experience increased...
- Tags: Researcher, Volunteer, Anxiety, Johns Hopkins University, Monitors & Displays, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- A look at Obama's IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge
- Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic party nomination with the help of social networking, a Facebook staffer and an off-the-shelf IT strategy. Those are some of the takeaways from a case study by David Carr at CIOZone, a site started by a bunch of my former Baseline...
- Tags: Strategy, Facebook, Phone, Information Technology, Volunteer, Barack Obama, David Carr, Hughes, Productivity, Social Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Volunteer Management System (zip)
- Volunteer Management System VMS auto-matches volunteers to positions according to skill and availability with scheduling accomplished with a mouse click. Scheduling changes are auto tracked so the volunteer manager can re-email schedules from withing VMS to affected volunteers and position supervisors. VMS handles groups of volunteers as easily as it...
- Tags: Volunteer, Volunteer Management System, Mice, Workforce Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2007-12-03
- Vol-Track (exe)
- Vol-Track is designed to ease the process of managing your volunteers and the organizations they support. With Vol-Track you will be able to track hours worked and generate reports quickly and easily. Vol-Track comes complete with built-in reports to give you quick access to important information.It also gives you the...
- Tags: Volunteer, Developers Kingdom, Vol-Track
- Software downloads 2007-09-27
- Volunteer Firefighters Get Improved Notification From Integrated Technology
- Like most small towns and suburbs in the United States, Cumberland, Maine, relies on volunteers to provide public services such as firefighting. As in most rural departments, Cumberland firefighters carry traditional fire pagers to hear signals sent out by a dispatcher. As volunteers traveled farther away to jobs in other...
- Tags: Firefighter, Pager, Volunteer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Web Servers, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Internet
- Case studies 2006-11-01
- Photos: Join the search for stardust
- At Stardust@Home, volunteers are asked to help locate comet samples brought back by NASA's Stardust probe.
- Tags: Stardust, NASA
- Image galleries 2006-08-01
- Minister Scheduler Pro (exe)
- Minister Scheduler Pro is a program created just for church ministry and volunteer scheduling, developed by industry professionals, and designed so that it can easily be used by anybody with any level of computer skills. Even the most complex scheduling considerations may be dictated through a remarkable simple, plain English...
- Tags: Industry, Volunteer, Computer, Rotunda Software, Minister Scheduler Pro, Productivity, Internet, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2006-05-06
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- Intel maintains commitment to education
- Despite dismal economic times, Intel, creator of the Classmate PC, an associated software stack, and a pedagogical model for its use in schools, has reaffirmed its commitment to education. Today, the company announced that it had achieved its goal of 1 million volunteer hours from its employees. According...
- Tags: Education, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- More OLPC Give One Considerations
- It's the second day of sales for the OLPC Give One Get One program on Amazon; the site is still up and still claiming next day delivery is available (anyone who gets theirs in a day, please talk back below). I posted several musings yesterday on this latest effort...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack
- The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack distributed denial of service attack , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site with 3/4 million hits daily from hundreds of thousands of malware infected hosts mostly based in Asia and Eastern Europe, according...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Botnet, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called out
- Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called outI suspect Icahn......is building a powerbase and sounding out the money men before sharpening his dagger.RE: Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called outIf you believe in the Yahoo brand and product for the long-term, $10 per share is a great buying opportunity.Andy...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Investment, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Icahn board, board
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Making clouds a move forward
- Making clouds a move forwardWindows Azure Is NOT VaporI was able to get a simple data-backed ASP.NET Web forms app installed and running in a Windows Azure instance in less than 15 minutes after testing it with the local (on-premises) Development Storage and Fabric facilities. See http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/azure-storage-services-test-harness.html for more details.As...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, Manufacturing, Data Ownership, Pie-In-The-Sky, Windows Azure
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Fear the Googler, not the Google
- Fear the Googler, not the GoogleThe secret is in motivesExample:I resist Microsoft's possession of even one bit of my personal information, because I know what their motives are. Same thing applies to the Government, because I know they are "lobbied" by Microsoft, regardless of what their motives are, which I...
- Tags: INTERNET, SEARCH, Google Inc., DogPile
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- The IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle: How far does a non-compete go?
- The IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle: How far does a non-compete go?Non-competes typically are enforced for......company executives. Clearly Mr. Papermaster was an executive of IBM and therefore the non-compete is applicable. IMO he does have a strong argument that his new role is materially different enough where the non-compete is not applicable.To work...
- Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Utility computing, Blade servers, Papermaster, IBM Corp., IBM-Apple-Papermaster, IBM-Apple-Papermaster triangle, triangle, NDA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- The Connected President
- There has been a lot of attention paid, of course, to Obama's use of the Internet in fundraising and volunteer coordination. But now that he's been elected, an even more intriguing possibility arises: The connected president. I received an email in Barack's name...
- Tags: President, Connected Corp., Internet, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- The importance of communication
- I'm neck deep in alligators at the moment, wrapping up a play with the high school's drama club. I can't say I really had time to volunteer for this particular job and, not surprisingly, the drama kids are consumed, currently, by their own internal drama, balanced against mid-terms. ...
- Tags: Election, Productivity, Leadership, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Election-day technology watches the polls
- I'm in Reno, Nevada, preparing to do some poll watching for the Obama campaign. We went to a training last night where they explained what seems like a convoluted reporting system, but organizers promise it actually works well. Poll watchers basically hang around and wait for the...
- Tags: Election Day, Poll, Obama, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Marketing, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- My fantasy: Robocall, meet Do Not Call Registry
- After a week of never-ending robocalls--including three on Sunday that interrupted dinner, a football game and a 2-year-old's going to bed ritual--I can't help but wonder whether we need a Do Not Robocall amendment to the National Do Not Call Registry. This idea isn't original--I've seen it...
- Tags: Registry, Do-Not-Call, Charity, Robocall, Telemarketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Marketing Research, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
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