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Techstars NYC is more global than ever with its latest class of startups

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companies, as well as others based in the France, Israel, Kenya, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, here are the startups: Dash (Nairobi, Kenya) — An alternative, cross-currency payment network for African consumers. Detach.ai (Lisbon, Portugal) — An AI operations platform focused on resolving issues proactively.

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And the Twitterville Book Winners Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's some of the schwag and a copy of Shel Israels's Twitterville that I purchased at last night's #tbash , the launch party for the book. Shel Israel donated three books. The t-shirts were provided by Network Solutions and Shashi was creating customized versions by ironing our Twitter handles!

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Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jeremiah Owyang has a post called " The Many Challenges of Social Networking " suggesting that social networks have passed the peak of inflated expectations and has identified a good list of challenges to success. " This relates to three challenges identified by Jeremiah: Successful Networks have hard time scaling.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Personal PSAs are those shared via mobile and social networks, in addition to being user-generated.). *. Organization(s) : Macmillan Cancer Support. Organization(s) : Meir Panim (Network of Soup Kitchens in Israel). Organization(s) : University of Auckland Clinical Trials Research Unit and Healthphone Solutions.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. Amanda Rose and Twestival pioneered a networked version of this approach to benefit charity:water, but it has also been used by single nonprofits. Sponsored Tweets/Hashtags.

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Vdoo raises $25M more to develop its AI-based security for IoT and connected devices

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The funding — an extension to the $32 million round that Vdoo announced in April 2019 — is coming from two investors, Israel’s Qumra Capital and Verizon Ventures (the investing arm of Verizon, which — by way of its acquisition of Aol many years ago — also owns TechCrunch).

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Recap of Unite for Sight '09 Global Health Conference, and Innovative Open Health Tools

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I spoke on a panel on Saturday afternoon and discussed internet technologies and trends in global health, including examples in data visualization, social networking, community development, and transparency. A robust ophthalmologist network and customized learning program. Bobby Jefferson of Futures Group International talked about ?Building

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