On-line philanthropy site to launch Monday - Newsday.com: "The founders of Fat Wire, one of Long Island's more high-profile technology companies started during the dot.com boom, have set their sights on online philanthropy.
On Monday, July 2, they will test-launch www.411Karma.com, a social networking site that allows entrepreneurs and others not only to share information about their pet causes but to make donations that will be sent along to charities."
Friday, June 29, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Google Earth Outreach To Aid Nonprofits | WebProNews
Google Earth Outreach To Aid Nonprofits | WebProNews: "Google Earth Outreach To Aid Nonprofits
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Google has launched Google Earth Outreach, a program focused on helping nonprofit organizations promote and illustrate the work they do.
Google Earth Outreach allows organizations to create stories using Google Earth layers. The program includes online guides, video tutorials and case studies about using Google Earth and is targeted at nonprofit organizations. There are also online forums that connect new participants to Global Awareness partners and programmers who can help in developing Keyhole Markup Language layers for Google Earth."
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Submitted by Mike Sachoff on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 10:59.
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Google has launched Google Earth Outreach, a program focused on helping nonprofit organizations promote and illustrate the work they do.
Google Earth Outreach allows organizations to create stories using Google Earth layers. The program includes online guides, video tutorials and case studies about using Google Earth and is targeted at nonprofit organizations. There are also online forums that connect new participants to Global Awareness partners and programmers who can help in developing Keyhole Markup Language layers for Google Earth."
Monday, June 25, 2007
Blogging catches on in Africa, despite technology limitations » PopMatters | News and Commentary | PopWire
Blogging catches on in Africa, despite technology limitations » PopMatters | News and Commentary | PopWire:
"In a sign that the medium is maturing, Were said that many of the sites saw a surge in traffic from in Kenya in the days after the plane crash.
“More Kenyans are looking to blogs for news and information, like people do in the States,” said Were, who first began experimenting with blogs as a university student in Manchester, England, in the late 1990s.
Now he balances blogging about politics and technology with his day job as an administrator at the Uzima Foundation, a youth-oriented nonprofit group founded by his family. He keeps a computer geek’s hours, often tinkering with his site into the early morning on his Toshiba laptop, using a painfully slow dial-up connection."
"In a sign that the medium is maturing, Were said that many of the sites saw a surge in traffic from in Kenya in the days after the plane crash.
“More Kenyans are looking to blogs for news and information, like people do in the States,” said Were, who first began experimenting with blogs as a university student in Manchester, England, in the late 1990s.
Now he balances blogging about politics and technology with his day job as an administrator at the Uzima Foundation, a youth-oriented nonprofit group founded by his family. He keeps a computer geek’s hours, often tinkering with his site into the early morning on his Toshiba laptop, using a painfully slow dial-up connection."
What We Think Of Bill Gates - Microsoft Blog - InformationWeek
What We Think Of Bill Gates - Microsoft Blog - InformationWeek: "'I'm a huge, huge admirer of Gates as a person and his philanthropy. Even though I was an outspoken critic of Microsoft, it's stunningly admirable behavior. That's his legacy.'
Mitchell Kertzman, partner with Hummer, Winblad and former CEO of Powersoft, Sybase, and Liberate Technologies
'Bill Gates breaks very complex things into simple, easy-to-understand form. He understands the end result of what innovation and breakthroughs can do.'
Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP America"
Mitchell Kertzman, partner with Hummer, Winblad and former CEO of Powersoft, Sybase, and Liberate Technologies
'Bill Gates breaks very complex things into simple, easy-to-understand form. He understands the end result of what innovation and breakthroughs can do.'
Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP America"
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