Dell Social Innovation Competition

Dell Social Innovation Competition: "Welcome to the Dell Social Innovation Competition

The University of Texas and Dell are looking for college students from around the world who want to improve areas of critical human need through innovation.

Providing a vehicle for taking student innovations from idea to reality, Dell’s Social Innovation Competition is a real-world exercise for perfecting your skills in:

* Project/business plan development
* Pitching ideas to investors
* Building resource networks"

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Why My Mom Is My Fundraising Guru | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network

Why My Mom Is My Fundraising Guru | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "he challenge in online fundraising today is that it's more than just email: it's Facebook, and Twitter, and e-mail, and widgets, and your website, and your blog, and your supporters blogs, and... well, you get the idea.

During the course of the 2009 fundraising campaign, the task ahead of me often felt like Medusa: if I stared directly into any of those serpentine eyes, I was frozen. Thinking too hard about any one tactic meant I was lost for hours. But we managed to meet the challenge (by the skin of our teeth)."

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Facebook | Beth Kanter: Win A HP Computer and Printer: What's Your Theory of Change for Social Media Use?

Facebook | Beth Kanter: Win A HP Computer and Printer: What's Your Theory of Change for Social Media Use?: "HP is giving away laptop and printer bundles as part of its HP’s Create Change program which is an example of 'embedded giving.' That's a buzz word coined by Lucy Bernholz to describe the common practice of building a philanthropic gift into another, unrelated, financial transaction. Embedded giving is easy for individuals to do, and probably gives them an added psychological boost to know that spending money on purchasing something is not just an act of commerce, it's an act of generosity."

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Introducing the New NTEN.org | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network

Introducing the New NTEN.org | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: "hile the new look has thrown off a few of us here at NTEN HQ -- years of habituation to click the same spot to go the the NTC pages, undone! -- we hope it will make the process of finding things on our site more intuitive for everybody else. The new 'Resources by Topic' section, in particular, should make it easier for you to find some of our once-hidden information.

The new look will be introduced to our Groups site and the My NTEN pages over the next few weeks. If you're bored, you can also compare the new site to the old: http://yekk.pair.com/nten.

We're certain there are issues and stylesheet-related funkiness here and there, and we hope you'll tell us about them, along with your general impressions, using our new commenting system. Thanks to Marshall K for sending the fine folks at JSKit.com our way, and thanks to Chris Saad for letting us use Echo. We think it's a terrific system."

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A Germanium Laser may Boost Storage and Computer Speeds

God bless the brains at MIT. The number of tech wonders they've developed stuns the imagination. Now there are reports of a developed Germanium laser that might very well change computing as we know it.

It seems that as processors and bandwidth get faster and faster, the big slowdown in our systems is the bulky, heat generating, and power hungry copper that moves the electrons around in our electronics. This is looking like the next bottleneck that will have to be overcome to increase computing speeds.

Well, MIT may very well have solved the bottleneck with the development of this laser. It seems that the laser might actually be able to be fabricated directly onto chips when they are manufactured. Imagine a computer chip with its own built-in laser! This would allow things to move around the computer at the speed of light with very little added heat.

There's no word on a timetable for deployment, but it's little discoveries like this that can often mean big changes and advancement on down the road.

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CFP: ART DOCUMENTATION (Art Libraries Society of North America)

CFP: ART DOCUMENTATION (Art Libraries Society of North America)

Editors are inviting articles for both the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 issues of ART DOCUMENTATION, the semiannual peer-reviewed journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America. The articles should fall within the scope of art and architecture librarianship, visual resources curatorship, digital image management, technology related to the visual
arts, art publishing, artists’ books, and related fields.

For the Fall 2010 issue, papers should be close to completion; the first draft deadline is April 1, 2010. Many articles have already been accepted for this issue, but there is still space for a few more. For the Spring 2011 issue, please send your abstracts now for articles concerning research or projects that you are still developing. The first draft deadline for this issue is September 1, 2010.

Have you recently given a presentation at a conference or prepared a poster session that would be appropriate to expand as a journal article? Please send an abstract if the subject falls within the scope of ART DOCUMENTATION.

For additional information and a description of the review process, ART DOCUMENTATION contributor guidelines may be found at http://www.arlisna.org/artdoc/contrib_guidelines.html.

I look forward to hearing from you!


Judy Dyki
Editor, ART DOCUMENTATION
Library Director, Cranbrook Academy of Art
39221 Woodward Avenue, Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-0801
248-645-3364 voice
248-645-3464 fax
jdyki@cranbrook.edu

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Conversation Agent: Blogging at Work if You Don't Have a Blog

Conversation Agent: Blogging at Work if You Don't Have a Blog: "Many companies and marketing communications professionals are thinking about social media. But starting a blog seems daunting. If you're among them, I'm certain you've considered who's going to write consistently, who will moderate comments, how closely you will need to watch to see if anyone comes, and you probably also worry that nobody will come at all.

Blogging doesn't need to happen on blogs alone."

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The Chevy Volt is Coming... and You can Order One This Year

As most of you regular readers know, this fall I went green when I purchased a Chevy Tahoe Hybrid. While I'm still loving it every time I get behind the wheel (not to mention every time I can pass a fuel pump) this post isn't about me. It's about the next big thing in green driving.

The Chevy Volt has been shown at car shows and has been talked about for a few years now, but it seems that you'll finally be able to get your hands on one this calendar year. GM dealers should begin taking orders in September with a target delivery date of November.

The biggest/coolest thing about the Volt? Well there's tons of technology, but the big thing is 230 mpg. No, that's not a typo. See your Chevy dealer this fall.

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Center for Esthetic Excellence Announces CE Course Schedule

The Center for Esthetic Excellence (CEE) in Chicago, Illinois has one of the most highly regarded faculties of any continuing dental education programs in the world. The CEE programs combine a lecture and “hands-on” class format and each course is limited to fifteen participants which is conducive to a more intimate learning experience. Learn skills that will take your career to the next level while practicing in-office techniques in a fully equipped ultra-modern facility. For more information or to see the 2010 schedule and course descriptions, please call 1-800-837-2321 or visit www.cosmedent.com.

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How can we cope with information overload? - CNN.com

How can we cope with information overload? - CNN.com: "If you worry you're missing interesting content, it's probably because you are.

The bad news is that there's no way to fix the problem: The amount of online content out there is simply too much to handle, and it's constantly growing.

But the good news is there's plenty of entrepreneurial energy going toward tools for helping us, if not eradicate the problem, at least deal with it a bit less ineffectively."

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