Author Archives: David Collin

Gotta have my internet

The Pew Internet and American Life Project is at it again. They’ver relaesed data indicating more people than ever are using the internet for important information. Here’s some of the findings: 54% in the number of adults who said the internet played a major role as they helped another person cope with a major illness. And the number of those ...

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Do we dare?

I just learned about Word of Blog.net: a website where nonprofits can post badges they want people to adopt. So we could put the "I Fight Cancer" badge there or maybe a Relay badge. Susan G. Komen has a badge at the site. So there!

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Open Office

Last week I had a ton of trouble with Microsoft's Office Suite. I couldn't get Word or Excel to work at all. Luckily I found a free, open-source software program called OpenOffice. Was it as good at Microsoft's Office? Was it as easy to use? Find out in this week's podcast…… MP3 File

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Final chapter

I want to give an update to the post below about capturing presentations made over PA systems to use as podcasts or internal training audios. Here’s another step: synchronize the PowerPoints from the presentation with the soundtrack you’ve captured. I got hold of the PowerPoint file from our recent new-staff orientation, extracted the frames that correspond to the segments I ...

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