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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. ” It connects a stethoscope hardware device to a mobile phone and the user is able to transmit diagnostic information into a cloud service, reproducing the diagnostic capability of a trained medical doctor.

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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. And Cisco says that 90% of the world’s data will be video in four years. You owe it to yourself to get the most out of your good work through sight, sound, and motion. Holy smokes!

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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. Find out more on this new service here. It also allows individuals to log into the app and see which charities close by need either financial or volunteer help.

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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

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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. Privacy and Security.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

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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. In the June Nonprofit Technology News I mentioned the coming of FreedomPop’s free phone service for Android users. smartphones.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

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The web introduced publicly viewable web pages that include text, images, and sounds. Charity Digital News in the UK just announced that the Digital Leaders 100 competition in the UK is now open to nominations. of charities or NGOs that are doing important digital inclusion projects. NPTech Contests and Awards.

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