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Stay Tuned For The Last 2012 Look Ahead Post -- An Interview With Dale Zak
Due to the technical issues connected to recording a skype interview with Dale, I have been forced to push the publishing date to next Monday. It will still be January, so it totally makes it as a perfect closure for the series (let me remind you, that so far you read about SOPA & ACTA, the Green Tech trends, as well as the future of Web Design).
- Alicja Peszkowska's blog
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How to run an international project on social change – lessons learned from the research phase
Fundacja TechSoup, which I’m working at (Fundacja is a European hub for the TechSoup Global Network), is running a project that is to be developed in 10 new Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The Project is funded by the Mott Foundation and serves as a great and challenging opportunity.
- Anna Kuliberda's blog
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Greening Offices in 2012. Tips From Jim Lynch
The following post, third in the Net2 2012 Look Ahead series, focuses on protips for making the way you run your office more environmentally friendly. The article is authored by Jim Lynch who is TechSoup Global's Co-Director of the GreenTech program, as well as the Community Driven Innovation team member. Jim has been involved in creating all of TechSoup’s environmental programs. He has written extensively on electronics recycling and reuse, cloud computing, greening offices, and many other green IT subjects. Over the years he has been interviewed on computer recycling and related issues by the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Voice of America, PC World Magazine, and many other news outlets.
- Alicja Peszkowska's blog
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TechSoup Webinar: Before You Push Record -- How To Record Your Video
This TechSoup webinar run by Rich Vazquez will cover what you need to know before you record your video. Topics include:
- The importance of storytelling
- Creating a script and production Guide
- Finding free music, stock video and photography
- Alicja Peszkowska's blog
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The Future of Web Design
Any conversation about the future of web design has to come to terms with a fundamental and rapid shift in the way we view the web. By 2014, mobile Internet usage will surpass desktop usage. And from desktops and laptops to smart phones and tablets of differing sizes and resolutions, viewing device options are also growing at an increasingly steady rate.
For web designers and developers, it simply won’t work to build websites for just one or two types of devices, and the days of checking your site in a few web browsers and launching are long gone.
- Bari's blog
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