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Volunteers 1.1 (Mobile)

Volunteers is a University of Tennessee football schedule for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It provides up-to-date kickoff times and game results. Go Vols!

Tags: Mobile, Volunteer, Philip Kirkham, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-08-12

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 V2000B0061 (Windows)

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, Wright Information Technology Solutions, Volunteer Management System, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Workforce Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2007-12-03

Vol-Track 2 (Windows)

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, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-09-27

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

Vol-Track 1.0 (Windows)

Vol-Track keeps tabs on volunteers, the hours they've worked, jobs they've done, and organizations they've worked for. This package comes with some features such as Customizable Reports, Detail Input Views, and Input Cards. Reports can be generated for you to demonstrate your group's progress to managers or agencies. There is...

Tags: Volunteer, Information, Vol-Track, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2004-09-16

Additional Resources

Volunteer organizations

Why are people so willing to help their volunteer organizations to succeed when they're so reluctant to do the same at their place of employment? by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Not tolerating the intolerant

My thoughts"Most reject volunteerism in search of making money, satisfying career ambitions, relaxing or spending time with friends and family."Some volunteerism is fine, and I'm glad to help out when I can - but I don't think it can or should sustain an economy or nation. And yes, I think...

Tags: tolerance, volunteerism, apathy

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Not tolerating the intolerant

Whether you are involved in open source, free culture, digital rights, social change or green issues, community forms when people with drive and passion for an ethos share their ideas and volunteer to make those ideas a reality. by Jono Bacon

Tags: Idea, Open Source, Jono Bacon

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Tor 0.2.1.20 (Mac)

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Network, Relay, Tor, Internet, Networking, Security

Software downloads 2009-11-01

Nook Clarified: Really solid progress for e-readers

Yesterday, I posted a long analysis of what I thought was right and strangely wrong about the Barnes & Noble Nook. Matt Miller today got a clarification about my main concern, which was that Barnes & Noble seemed to have said, according to several published reports, that Wi-Fi would work...

Tags: E-reader, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-21

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Windows SMB2 exploit now public; Expect in-the-wild attacks soon

Another "researcher" makes a name for himself.So, just why was it necessary for for this Bozo to actually "create and release the code" for the exploit? Let me guess. His company makes money by hyping up the level of fear. See their web page where they say...

Tags: Firewalls, SECURITY, Network security, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Windows SMB2, attack, firewall, antivirus

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Oolite 1.73.4 (Mac)

Oolite is a space-sim game that incorporates trade, battles with pirates, bounty hunting, secret missions and infinitely more. It features high-quality sound and smooth, fast three dimensional graphics, written specifically for Mac OS X using Cocoa and optimised for OpenGL. And it's free.Oolite is written by Giles Williams, who was...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Work, Giles Williams, Oolite, Games, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-22

Google reCAPTCHA could raise bar in anti-bot, anti-spam battle

Well what are other options?I'm not knocking your concern because it is a valid point. But does that mean we just leave everything open to bots and spammers? What could be done for the disabled? I thought reCAPTCHA had some ways of handling this.What about for the deaf-blind?Implement CAPTCHA or...

Tags: anti-spam, reCAPTCHA, Amazon.com Inc., CAPTCHA, bot, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Neuroengineering to challenge what it means to be human

sign me upI am definitely interested in any advantages I can be given through neural enhancement or cybernetics. Obviously early attempts to alter the brain will be less effective and will no doubt exhibit many flaws but even a dodgy upgrade is better than no upgrade if you are...

Tags: Semiconductors, Neuroengineering

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers?

Can't we all just get along?[nt]He has no right to be upsetThis is code that is being released [b]for free[/b] to the Open Source community. It will be released on MS's timeline and not some arbitrary timeline specified by someone who is on record as hating MS. No other open...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, GPL v2, kernel, Microsoft Corp., open source, open-source community, GPL, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-10