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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. More than 85% of US internet users watched online video in July, and on average they spent more than 14 hours doing it. And Cisco says that 90% of the world’s data will be video in four years.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet. Up to now our digital selves have been pretty indelible on the Internet. They’re calling it The Fog.

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Changing the Present, Give Meaning, and Personal Fundraising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonetheless, I wholeheartedly agree with the concept and philosophy that giving donations to causes is better than giving stuff -- and we've been doing this for years on our own directing people to give gifts to charities we care about. over The Million Dollar Blog - the Internet Wishing Well, and for each comment they donate $1 to charity.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

Tech Soup

No Internet of Things (IoT) or big data. TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging. The New York Times also recently came out with an article on Reinventing the Internet to Make It Safer.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. These drones can supply Internet access at a fraction of the cost of near-earth satellites. TechCrunch.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. It now of course has its own acronym: IoT.

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