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Professional Slide Presentations for Regular People

 I read Garr Reynold’s Presentation Zen (see his blog, http://www.presentationzen.com/) while getting a workshop ready for last spring’s NTC (http://www.nten.org/ntc).  Read Presentation Zen when you...

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Why Net Neutrality Matters

 How good is your Internet access and how much does it matter? How much does improving your Internet access matter for you at home, for your organization at work, and for the constituents and...

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Will the Revolution Be Tweeted? Striking the Right Balance with Social Media

I just took in The Social Network movie and Malcolm Gladwell’s October 4New Yorker article, "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will not be Tweeted" for a double feature  of social media caution.  The...

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Round X: Do you or does Facebook own your Facebook data?

 More and more web sites allow you to sign in with your Facebook ID. Not a good idea if you are just doing it to avoid remembering passwords. Better to sign-up for lastpass.com or something like it....

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"Minority Report" and the Future of the News

 My New Year’s reflection on what comes next included watching the 2002 movie Minority Report again. I found myself wondering why this ten year old sci-fi thriller gets shown so much on TV. The once...

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A fresh look at Dragon voice recognition software

 Something different about this blog entry then my usual ones is that I'm dictating it instead of typing it.  Every so often my mouse hand and wrist bothers me for a week or two. The last time this...

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Cloud Security in the Era of WikiLeaks

Salesforce helped pioneer the concept of putting confidential organizational data in a "public cloud" system.  Other key vendors offering public cloud data services include Microsoft Azure and Amazon...

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Out from Under Too Much Data

Shelley Podolny’s March 12 New York Times column, “The Digital Pileup,” started me thinking.  “Because electronic information seems invisible, we underestimate the resources it takes to keep it all...

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Tips for Software Trainings

For an quick, inside look at how Idealware manages so many successful on-line trainings, take a look at Andrea Berry’s post, http://idealware.org/blog/askidealware-how-does-idealware-prepare-seminars....

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Surviving Browser Compatibility Issues

If you thought browser compatibility issues were on their way out, think again. As more organizations realize the cost savings of using a web application over a traditional desktop application, and...

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