Programs

Crypto to the Rescue After Khan Academy’s COVID-19 Traffic Surge

The founder of education platform Khan Academy has put out an urgent call for donations following a 250% surge in users due to the coronavirus crisis.CEO Sal Khan asked users to donate fiat — or they can donate Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) via their Brave browsers — to help the platform stay open during the pandemic.Khan said the surge was due to record numbers of students forced to stay home during lockdowns and social distancing requirements. A billion schoolkids are staying home because of COVID-19Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that

How to Run Large Zoom Meetings: 5 Best Practices for Businesses, Churches, Etc.

We have entered the age of Zoom. Forget other videoconference programs: they’re slow, buggy, and hard to use. You spend half the meeting trying to get everyone connected. We’ve tried them all, and we’ve found that Zoom “just works.” It’s great for small teams, but it gets a little more challenging for larger griefs. In this CoCo brief, we’ll talk about 5 best practices that we’ve learned from an unlikely source: The Union Church in Newton, Massachusetts. The Union Church has been successfully running their Sunday services on Zoom, with upwards of