Major props to Rabbi Eli Garfinkel for using technology in a creative and forward-thinking way. The Ask My Rabbi Show lets the inquisitive anonymously send their Jewish-related questions to the reb, who will answer them in front of a camera and post the answer online. My question: why aren’t more Jewish organizations thinking so creatively […]
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Anyone who has tried to go for a walk with a portable CD player knows how nice MP3 players are. No jumping, no expensive batteries, nothing to break because there are no moving parts. You’ll love the CherryPal cloud computer for all the same reasons. It’s a great little energy-efficient machine that’s super simple for
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Now you can look forward to Mondays – this week marks the beginning of Gadget Mondays on the Friendly Web Tools blog. We know that the Web stuff doesn’t work unless you have the technology to make it happen, so we’ll start to cover the hardware that will make your computing life less confusing. On
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We’ve been invited by a client that serves synagogues to put together a series of quick-hit webinars based on common problems their constituency has with technology. We’re still not sure which will be the most welcomed by the community, so I wanted to open up to you for your vote. In exchange, we’ll host a
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When going over the designs for his website, a client of mine said, “If we put our newsletter on our website, why do we need to e-mail it to people too?” My answer: “Because they don’t know it’s there!” It’s a very common question, and a common misconception. Just because you build a website doesn’t
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One of the most frequent questions we get at Talance is, “Why does social media matter to my nonprofit?” Well, it matters for many reasons, which I regularly expand on in these pages. N-TEN is also trying to address the relevance in a new curriculum project called We Are Media. Here’s a blurb from a
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It’s no ordinary occasion that Microsoft, Sun and Cisco engage in a project together. But this is no ordinary occasion. Hackers have discovered a potentially very dangerous ways to take people to different websites even when they think they’ve typed in the right address. For instance, you may type www.cnn.com into your webpage, but you
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If you’re anything like me today, you’re obsessively checking the clock waiting for July 4th and the long weekend to get here already. The last thing I feel like doing is to find a new friendly web tool to help me with my work. So, with that in mind, I give you We Feel Fine,
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Do yourself a favor and download the new Firefox 3.0 browser right now. Here’s a full list of the top new features, but my favorite is that it’s so fast!
“Track your rivals.Then eat their lunch.” No questions about what Compete does. You can check statistics for your website and your competitors’ websites to give yourself the upper hand in competitive intelligence. [From a piece I wrote for FUMSI magazine.]
