Pauls musings and tidbits

John Kenyon - What Every Nonprofit Needs to Know About Technology: “Managing technology is no longer optional, it is a critical piece of any nonprofit’s business plan. In this talk, information technology consultant John Kenyon gives invaluable guidance on the planning needed for small and medium sized organizations to get the most out of their tech investment. Using a work systems framework, Kenyon explores the choices needed to minimize risks and strike the right balance between people, data and technology.”

(Read Original Article - Via Social Innovation Conversations.)

Paul Lamb - Nonprofits of the Future: ” Technology is changing the game for organizations in the social space. In this interview with John Powers, nonprofit technology consultant Paul Lamb explores how the web is already transforming nonprofits and NGOs. Lamb looks ahead to the potential that ubiquitous, mobile computing, virtual worlds, user generated content, and social networking have to up-end traditional constraints and to open new doors. Although the pace of change can be daunting, venturing into the tech frontier can increase effectiveness and help smaller nonprofits take destiny into their own hands.

(Via IT Conversations.)

Slashdot | First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop

An anonymous reader noted that MITs $100 laptop was unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting. It runs a special version of the Fedora linux and it comes with native wireless lan support. You can see the photo album,

A little more background:

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003707.html

Some more recent info:

http://laptop.org/

The first working prototype of the $100 Laptop is unveiled at the Seven
Countries Task Force Meeting, 23 May 2006.

Pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pete/sets/72057594143224765/

Crooks and Liars

Stephen Colbert spoke tonight at the dinner and
lampooned pretty much everything he could think of and Helen Thomas. I
used the second half of his performance because it included the
Generals, Scalia, the Faux press briefing and as E&P reported:“As he walked from the podium the president and
First Lady gave Colbert quick nods, unsmiling, and left. E&P’s Joe
Strupp, in the crowd, observed that quite a few felt the material was,
perhaps, uncomfortably biting.”

Video-WMP (low res) Video QT (it’s a big file)

Editor: You can also find the C-SPAN rebroadcast (at least for now) of the whole thing at:

rtsp://video.c-span.org/60days/wh042906_dinner.rm