Apparently, Microsoft has decided to develop a software package specifically for health care organizations. Per this New York Times article;

"This represents a change in our strategy," said Peter Neupert, Microsoft's vice president for health strategy.

Uh, that's an understatement if I ever heard one! But I think it's interesting, because Microsoft is clearly following the trend. The trend is to make technology more personable, which in turn means that it must be more flexible. It has to offer users the ability to personlaize their experiences.

In the same way, nonprofit sectors (food

What is the one thing that will unleash the power of ICT for disaster response? Openness. Open architectures and open collaborations. A recent report by the Harvard Law School (developed in collaboration with 13 governments, many NGOs, IBM and other IT partners), outlines five principles for creating an open ICT environment, and spells out the benfits with

Just got a press release from the folks at Convio. I get a lot of press releases, and I rarely write about them. But this partnership with Easter Seals is fantastic.

Easter Seals will hire 10 interns, people with disabilities interested in careers that require Web authoring skills, and train them to use Convio's new accessible Web content management tools. Following the training, which is slated for four Easter Seals affiliates across the country and Easter Seals' National Headquarters in Chicago, the organization will assist the interns in finding permanent jobs

Last Friday, I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of hours with the folks at the Community Technology Network of the Bay Area giving a bit of a presentation about how nonprofits can use blogging. I think my slides might be a bit cryptic because I try not to write too much down (lest I devolve into reading). However, thay may be of use to some, so here they are!

You should also note that I spent a fair bit of time looking at some actual blogs. You can see my example blogs at my del.icio.us entry for "blog".