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Apple’s Invasion feels like the first chapter of a sci-fi epic

The Verge

Across its 10 episodes, which chart a handful of humans grappling with an alien invasion, the story slowly teases out the reality of what’s happening. Unlike most stories about an alien invasion, which tend to focus on the alien part, Invasion lingers on human trauma. Image: Apple. Invasion gets off to a slow start. Image: Apple.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. The Tools Don’t Create Strong or Weak Ties, Stories and People Do. It is generated partly from the story, and the social network that enables that story to be told.

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Nonprofit Data Could Be The Missing Piece In Your CSR Strategy

Global Giving

And consumers are demanding that boardrooms consider the impact of their entire supply chains , leading companies to take new responsibility in areas like disaster recovery. It combines government data, public information, and other reliable records to give the most comprehensive virtual map of nonprofits from Afghanistan to Venezuela.

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Veterans Leverage Their Pro Bono Skills to Rise to the Call of Duty from Afar

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the Afghanistan government fell to the Taliban just days after the U.S. Air Force aircrafts evacuating people from Afghanistan. I was heartbroken by what was happening in Afghanistan. and coalition forces withdrew their troops, Afghan allies that served alongside the U.S. Veterans Called to Duty Digitally. Government.

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Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time

Have Fun - Do Good

One year she made each of us a sweater with a story. Betty Christiansen's book, Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time , captures 28 stories of people and organizations who are using knitting to comfort, empower and heal.

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Impact and Interoperability: How Technology Powers Collaboration

Saleforce Nonprofit

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country.

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Americans still believe they live in a compassionate country, report shows

Fast Company Tech

As a journalist, I covered stories of war and trauma in the 1990s, including the crushing of Chinese protests in Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, followed by the Soviet Unions collapse two years later. The researchers who worked on the Ali Center report interviewed more than 5,000 U.S.

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