The Communities Connect Network (CCN)/EdLab Group has been awarded a $4.1 million public computing center grant from the Department of Commerce NTIA Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP), as part of the federal stimulus funding. Residents in Seattle and across Washington State will benefit from today’s joint announcement by the Department… [ Keep reading ]
Netsquared, an initiative of Techsoup Global, hosted a session earlier this year called “How Nonprofits Can Use Wikis + Online Community Building.” You can view a video of the session’s three wiki-experts here and learn about this simple collaborative tool. One quote from the Adam Frey, the co-creator of Wikispaces,… [ Keep reading ]
WordPress has added an “Official Tweet Button” for all WordPress.com blogs! It’s a really exciting feature that allows your readers to easily tweet a link to your blog post. To add the button to your blog, go to Appearance > Extras menu and select the Show a Twitter Tweet Button… [ Keep reading ]
Idealware, a nonprofit dedicated to helping nonprofits make smarter decisions, has created a guide to help nonprofits learn how to use social networking tools. From their website: Social media can be useful to your organization… but how useful? For what? What tangible results are people seeing from it? Created in… [ Keep reading ]
Mayor Mike McGinn and the City Council jointly announced today that 24 Seattle community organizations will receive a total of $300,000 in Technology Matching Fund grants to promote access, job skills, education, and civic engagement. See the press release about these great community projects with links to a map and… [ Keep reading ]
Interested in a free seminar through Idealware? On Thursday, July 29, from 1 to 2:30 (Eastern time), Idealware is conducting a free webinar where you and your organization can learn about affordable ways to help your network use technology more effectively. Click here to register and/or learn more about this… [ Keep reading ]
2010 and 2009 Technology Matching Fund grantees filled City Council Chambers in a show of support of CB 116919, which authorizes $300,000 to support technology programs, staffing and equipment in Seattle. For the video clip of the Seattle City Council briefing on July 21, where representatives from over 20 organizations… [ Keep reading ]
Have you spent much time wondering about green computing? No, it is not taking your iPad with you to the Irish pub on St. Patricks day. A good technology operations manager has to live and breathe green computing 24 hours a day. We have to understand the implications to power and cooling… [ Keep reading ]
Welcome to Tech Boss Banter, part of the Department of Information Technology’s Tech Talk blog. Join us for a light-hearted view of technology management through the eyes of Department of Information Technology employee, Deb Schlenker, Director – Computing Services. With any luck it will be informative, thought provoking and fun!
Change. You can’t live with it and you can’t live without it. Kind of like your smartphone, laptop, parents, spouses, children. . . well you get the point. However in the workplace you do have to live with change. Changes can include a new technology, a new business process, a… [ Keep reading ]