The people at the Nielson rating agency have just posted information about the use of smart phones (phones with an operating system for applications beyond phone/text communications) in the United States. For those of us who follow the industry, the numbers are striking though not surprising: Adaptation of smartphone technology continues to outpace traditional cellphone […]
Archives for November 2010
Nonprofits Prepare For Changing Political Landscape
Image via Wikipedia Yes, the elections were a whole week ago. The new Congress will not be seated until January 2011, anyway. But some voices in the nonprofit world are still responding to the former and preparing for the latter. We would encourage our readers in the mission-based community to continue to do the same. […]
Obama Administration Cuts Tax On Small-Business Property Investments
Even as the dust continues to settle over this week’s midterm elections, the IRS has been reminding small- and medium-business owners that changes in the tax code could mean appreciable tax savings over the next few years. These saving are not part of the soon-to-expire Bush Administration tax cuts, whose continuance and in what form […]
#EDUCATION: Why Computer Literacy Is Crucial
Why Computer Literacy is Key to Winning the 21st Century Let’s not make ourselves obsolete … “Upending our notions of what it means to interface with computers could help democratize the biggest engine of wealth since the Industrial Revolution.” A 2014 Mother Jones‘ article from explores the challenges faced by communities nationwide, as funds for computational […]
Facebook Update: Going Places And Making Deals
One of the leitmotifs of the fictionalized biopic “The Social Network” concerns Mark Zuckerberg‘s inability/unwillingness to commercialize the burgeoning behemoth that he and his peers have conceptualized and coded. If that inability/unwillingness to imagine the commercial opportunities of Facebook were true as portrayed in the film, the CEO has certainly overcome his shyness of the […]
Upcoming Seminars, Webinars, And Courses For Nonprofits
The midterm elections are done, and the races largely decided. The dust will take a bit of time to settle, and the analysts will continue to discuss ‘the meaning’ of the Republican takeover of the House, etc. We, on the other hand, turn our attentions to a few of the upcoming seminars and conferences that […]
#Interview: Ellayne Ganzfried, Executive Director of The National Aphasia Association
(As promised, we return to our look at the condition called Aphasia in a conversation with Ellayne Ganzfried of the National Aphasia Association.) Ellayne Ganzfried wanted to be a teacher, but a hiring freeze in New York steered life in a completely unexpected direction. Ganzfried, Executive Director of the NAA, has had a lot of […]
The Midterms Are Here! The Midterms Are Here!
News sources, pundits, entertaining commentators, irritating commentators, restoration rallies, and $3.5 billion in spending have all been leading up to this day. You’ve probably made up your mind and/or cast your votes, or you will be doing both in the next few hours. We want to join in the chorus to Get Out The Vote, […]