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Data Digest: African Students Using Open Data, Social Impact Bonds, Digital Smoke Signals, and the Data Dilemma

Tech Soup

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. It harnesses locally based solutions to decrease the effects of disasters and rehabilitate communities in disaster-prone areas. It was originally published on NetSquared. Big Data for Development.

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Good Ram Gone Bad On My Dell Desktop: OMG

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

see those pink arrows) This took about an hour on the phone with the technical support guy at Dell who walked through opening up the CPU and swapping out the four bars of RAM and rebooting. Oh, I've had problems before, but only minor hardware failures and crashes because I have a duo-RAID hard drive.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning. Say you’re allowing employees to access email on their personal mobile phone. We’ve covered some cloud-based apps that have had data problems where your own data is compromised because of a vendor.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

Have Fun - Do Good

He'd been going around the country looking at everything from disaster sites, to CEOs of corporations, and seeing how people were empowered from the ground up. I called Van Jones on the phone, because we're good friends, I was crying, and I said to him, "I have done 20 years of organizing one way, and I did it the wrong way.

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