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Worth a Look: Easy Video-Teleconferencing

Methods & Process, Tools

Video Teleconferencing Made Easy

There are many expensive programs for video teleconferencing. Some even require a monthly fee. Luckily, we have found Skype and VSee. These two programs are full of useful features, easy to install, user-friendly and, best of all, cost you nothing to use.

Skype, available at www.skype.com, is a free program that allows video and audio conversations with other Skype users. All you need is an internet connection and a microphone. Skype also allows you to make calls from your computer to any phone in the world for a small fee (less than 2 cents a minute).

VSee, from www.vseelab.com, is a lesser-known free program that allows you to share your desktop (application sharing) while conducting audio and video conferences. Any window on your computer screen can be shared with other VSee users in your teleconference. The better data collaboration lets you share ideas as if you were in the same room together.

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Worth a Look: WiserEarth Multilingual

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Uncategorized
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Hello!, Hola!, Bonjour!, 你好! (Nǐ Hǎo), Buongiorno!مرحبا (Marhaba), Здравствуйте! (PRIvet), Guten Tag!
안녕하세요 (An nyoung haseh yo),こんにちは (Konnichiwa), שלום

WiserTongues: Help WiserEarth become multilingual!

Why speaking English isn't enough

Did you know that 60% of the WiserEarth Community comes from outside the United States? This is great news as we always wanted WiserEarth to be a global resource for the nonprofit environment and social justice community. However, most of the hundreds of thousands of people coming to the site each month are from English-speaking countries. This means that we are not reaching out enough to the billions of non-English speakers who could use WiserEarth to help them in their nonprofit and sustainability-focused work.

We want to enable members of the worldwide community to use WiserEarth in their own language. Only by doing this can we help to grow the connections among our international community and support their work.

What can you do?

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Journal: United Nations a “Dumb” Elite Organization

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 11 Society, Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Key Players, Non-Governmental, Peace Intelligence

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UN food summit ends with ‘crumbs' in hunger fight

By FRANCES D'EMILIO (AP) – 1 hour ago

ROME — The head of a U.N. food agency expressed regret Wednesday that an anti-hunger summit failed to result in precise promises of funding, and critics said the meeting had only thrown crumbs to the world's 1 billion people without enough to eat.

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Journal: Material Poverty (AF) vs Moral Poverty (US)

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Key Players, Policies, Reform, Strategy, Threats

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Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war

Jonathon Burch – Wed Nov 18

“ Half our people have been driven mad–always in fear.”

KABUL (Reuters) – Most Afghans see not Taliban militants but poverty, unemployment and government corruption as the main causes of war in their country, according to a report by a leading aid group released on Wednesday.

After three decades of war, Afghanistan remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. It is also one of the most corrupt. Unemployment stands at 40 percent and more than half the country live below the poverty line.

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Retired military officers cash in as well-paid consultants

WASHINGTON — Six months after Marine Lt. Gen. Gary McKissock retired in 2002, he did what many other ex-military leaders do: He joined the board of directors of a defense contractor, a company doing business with his former service.

McKissock also had a second job. The Marines brought him back as an adviser, at double the rate of pay he made on active duty. Since 2005, the Marines have awarded McKissock contracts worth $1.2 million, in addition to his military pension of about $119,000 a year. McKissock is one of at least 158 retired admirals and generals the Pentagon has hired to offer advice under an unusual arrangement.

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Journal: Web War II

Communities of Practice, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Key Players, Methods & Process, Mobile, Policies, Real Time, Threats
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Web 2.0 Expo: O'Reilly Warns Of Web War

Paul McDougall November 17, 2009

Internet visionary fears an end to openness as Internet rivals consolidate power.

The Web, which began life as an open community where information and tools were freely shared across geographic, political, and social boundaries, is in danger of becoming segmented into a federation of closed camps led by a handful of increasingly powerful vendors, said Internet pundit Tim O'Reilly.”We're heading back into an ugly time,” said O'Reilly, during a keynote address Tuesday at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City.

O'Reilly said efforts by Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Apple, and other tech vendors—as well as publishers like Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones—to create closed communities around their products and services are jeopardizing the freedom, and the spirit, of the Web.
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Journal: Sarah Palin Cover Girl

Cultural Intelligence, Media
Patronizing Assholes
Sexist or Patronizing?

Phi Beta Iota: Poor Newsweek.  First they can't afford a photographer of their own, then they develop a cover and story that is patronizing in the extreme, rather than sexist.  And then to make it worse, their cover story is so badly ranked beneath stories about the story that they are inviisble.  Great photo.  Memorable.  Newsweek, on the other hand, is NOT memorable.

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Journal: Cyber-Idiocy Two, Cyber-Sense Zero

InfoOps (IO)
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U.S. Struggles with ‘Electronic Fratricide’ in Afghanistan

November 17, 2009,  Nathan Hodge

In Afghanistan, western militaries use radio frequency jammers to keep troops safe from remotely-detonated bombs. But those jammers and other gadgets have contributed to a “pollution” of the airwaves so severe that over 200 systems at Afghanistan’s main air base can’t talk to one another.

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Senate Panel: 80 Percent of Cyber Attacks Preventable

November 17, 2009,  Kim Zetter

If network administrators simply instituted proper configuration policies and conducted good network monitoring, about 80 percent of commonly known cyber attacks could be prevented, a Senate committee heard Tuesday.

Phi Beta Iota: Below the fold see the technical threat slide from Dr. Mich Kabay, and accompanying words, as presented to NSA at the first public conference in Las Vegas in January 2002. We have learned NOTHING since then, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is as catatonic as any so-called “Presidential” oversight agency could be…..our ignorance in the cyber-arena is halfway toward matching our ignorance in the intelligence arena–$75 billion a year for 4% of what the President needs, while we ignore 95% of the open sources in 183 languages we do not speak.  At a more strategic level, we could buy peace three times for what we spend on war.

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