Nova Scotia C@P

Nova Scotia Community Access Program is designed to assist communities in maintaining public Internet access sites and training local citizens to make use of information technologies for social and economic benefit to the individual and to the community.

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I’m tired of the, ‘We need more women in tech’ thing. How about we stop treating the ones that are here terribly?

Why Silicon Valley Needs The Coder Grrrls Of Double Union, The Feminist Hacker Space

The lack of women in the tech world isn’t just a pipeline problem—it’s one of rampant sexism. Enter the haven of Double Union.

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(via fastcompany)

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Thanks to Ryan from southwest nova for this great article.

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Kid Apps

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Check out this post from our friends at the Annapolis Valley Regional Library.

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blog.nielsen:

State of the Media: The Social Media Report 2012

Social media and social networking are no longer in their infancy. Social media continues to grow rapidly, offering global consumers new and meaningful ways to engage with the people, events and brands that matter to them.  According to Nielsen and NM Incite’s latest Social Media Report, consumers continue to spend more time on social networks than on any other category of sites—roughly 20 percent of their total time online via personal computer (PC), and 30 percent of total time online via mobile.  Additionally, total time spent on social media in the U.S. across PCs and mobile devices increased 37 percent to 121 billion minutes in July 2012, compared to 88 billion in July 2011.

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Happy New Year

NS C@P wants to wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Did you get some new technology for Christmas? If you want some advise or help on how to use it drop by your local C@P site and ask one of the many Winter Youth Initiative students. 

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January 2 = BYOD’s Big Day: How Will IT And The Cloud Keep Up?  | ReadWrite

Many enterprise employees no doubt received new tablets this Holiday season. And many are likely to bring them to work on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - perhaps the biggest day ever for the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend.

Will corporate IT be prepared for the challenge?

Managing BYOD devices like tablets poses many security and compliance challenges. Forrester has predicted that that tablets would become the primary computing devices in 2013, so it will be instructive to watch how corporate IT policies evolve to support or discourage BYOD with tablets. (Of course, some lucky workers will end up with tablets provided to them by their employers!)

Recent research has noted that - not surprisingly - many tablet users use their devices for email. With traditional data-storage infrastructure, the added workload of all these new tablets connecting into corporate networks could create quite a strain on applications like Microsoft Exchange. If organizations are running virtualized infrastructure or virtual desktops (VDI), delivering consistent performance gets even more complicated.

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Computers for Schools Reaches Milestone

Long time C@P friend and mentor, Bernie Hart, gave C@P a shout out at the ceremony recognizing computers for schools 80,000th computer placement.

See article here:

http://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20121211002

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Very cool TED Talk demonstrating Augmented Reality!

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