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Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Meanwhile, power hour prizes during Georgia Gives Day rewarded nonprofits that raised the most money during a designated hour; the prizes kept donors and nonprofits engaged throughout the day, and provided exclamation points for the event. And the group got creative when it came to offers. a hat tip to one of the local area codes.

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The Future of Mobiles for Nonprofits

NTEN

I could point to the Haiti disaster as the tipping point in cell phones -- for the increased engagement with donors, and more importantly, for the contributions of information from survivors. For most of the world, the Internet is the cell phone. There are so many of you who know more about this world-in-your-hand than I do.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

It doesn’t rely solely on the relatively few big data centers out there, but rather on the emerging Internet of Things in which processors are embedded into appliances, thermostats, cars, street lights, buildings, etc. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Here in the U.S.,

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Daily Crunch: Used-car marketplace Sylndr lands $12.6M pre-seed round, sets new record for MENA startups

TechCrunch

About half of that will go into the car maker’s new EV factory it is building in Georgia. Epic Games fought the law and won, for now : Epic Games temporarily won on behalf of its internet music company holding, Bandcamp, to let the app run its existing payment system on Android. Data disasters : The U.K. fined Clearview AI £7.5

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

And I learned a lot about fundraising before the internet, when you just dialed for dollars and sent mailings and had a lot of house parties. . The power goes out, you have some sort of disaster, or you just have things that are changing and you want to keep track of, “Quickly, what do we do to get into a change?”

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Cynicism suggests that the TikTok deal will go through

The Verge

Here are Georgia Wells and Alex Leary in the Wall Street Journal : People involved in the deals have provided differing accounts over the structure of the remaining stake, with a spokesman for ByteDance Ltd., Stanford Internet Observatory). And as Monday dawned, everything went to hell. Of course, there will be consequences.

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Mark Cuban on America’s future

The Verge

Facebook’s a disaster. It’s been a disaster. You can’t put something on CNN, let’s just say this is user-based content, every day at 3PM, we randomly pick something from the internet and we ask you if you want to put it on CNN. I know you’re very critical of Facebook and the other social networks. Yeah, particularly Facebook.

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