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Some Reflections about Social Data in the Cloud from the Social Innovation Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It sounds like science fiction, but let me share a few examples I heard about at the conference. Intercepting wildlife transferred across borders is critical to slowing illegal trade and DNA barcoding provides a public library of DNA barcode tests for enforcement officials to use as a front-line tool.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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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. It also allows individuals to log into the app and see which charities close by need either financial or volunteer help. They’re calling it The Fog.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

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TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging. Let's Encrypt is a project in cooperation with the University of Michigan, the nonprofit Mozilla, and TechSoup donor partner Cisco. Mobile Payments.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. The web introduced publicly viewable web pages that include text, images, and sounds.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative. That’s sounds good for world economic growth, maybe not so much for our privacy. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation.

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Solutionary Women: Katya Andresen

Have Fun - Do Good

My job is motivating people to give to their favorite charities through www.networkforgood.org – a nonprofit that was started by Yahoo!, AOL and Cisco in the wake of 9/11 with the vision of generating more money to charities online. This ensures a steadier stream of resources for charities. And that’s about it.