James Thomas is the Senior Director, Corporate Product Marketing at Business Objects. He talks to us about tools for better decision-making, collaborative models, scalability and doing more with less. 

 
Business Objects is a Silver sponsor of NetSquared, a donating partner to TechSoup Stock and corporate partner to TechSoup.org.

As as NetSquared Strategic Partner and we anticipate seeing the Reuters Digital Vision Program fellows in the mix and learning all about the good work they are doing globally. The Digital Vision Program supports social entrepreneurs who seek to leverage technology-based solutions in the interest of humanitarian, educational, and sustainable development goals. The Program fosters interdisciplinary projects and prototyping efforts that address real needs in underserved communities.

An RDVP Announcement:

The Pew Internet & American Life Project today released a report describing how the internet improves Americans' capacity to maintain their social networks and how they gain a big payoff when they use the internet to activate those networks to solicit help.

The report is based on two surveys and finds that the internet and email expand and strengthen the social ties that people maintain in the offline world. The surveys show that people not only socialize online, but they also incorporate the internet into their quest for information and advice as they seek help and make decisions.

The VC2 Survival Guide is a comprehensive video production primer. It's available online -- so I'm writing to make sure you know about it!

http://current.tv/studio/survivalguide/

Current's mission is to democratize TV, and part of that is helping to make the tools and techniques of video accessible to everyone.

That's where the Survival Guide comes in. It has several different parts:

* The Gear Guide, a run-down of the equipment you need to get started.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS GOES DIGITAL!Ombligo de los Barrios Chicano Park Wireless Network to launch with a FREE Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead Celebration Sunday October 30th, 2005,  12pm - 4pm

Chicano Park, San Diego, California

El Ombligo de los Barrios (the Chicano Park WiFi network) launches with a free family-oriented celebration of Dia de los Muertos from 12pm to 4pm. This fun-filled, family-oriented day honors the Day of the Dead holiday traditions , celebrates the distinctive Barrio Logan culture, and provides an opportunity for all to explore the benefits that wireless technology can bring to a community. The event is free and open to all.

REPOSTED

From: David Geilhufe
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:05 AM
To: ctcmembers
Subject: Re: [ctcnet] Could Google Earth revolutionize CTC work?

Another factor for CTC's in leveraging GIS for their work is the
release of CiviCRM. CiviCRM is open source, nonprofit-centric
constituent relationship management (CRM) software.  Think of it as
an open source version of Kintera/Convio.

CiviCRM has a nice little google maps integration that could allow a
CTC to easily collect and store their own data and "automagically"