Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

We were lucky to work with the Georgia Center for Nonprofits , IfPeople , and TechBridge. The very first Day of Service was back in the days when nonprofits were very new to the Internet and most (particularly smaller organizations) did not have IT expertise in-house and, some, computers. There was a lot of energy in the room.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

” Tractian provides sensors that attach to — and send data about — machines via 3G or 4G cellular networks. In 2018, Gartner predicted that by 2022, spend on internet of things-enabled predictive maintenance would increase to $12.9 Tractian plans to follow up with market entry in Atlanta, Georgia later this year.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

Programs like this often add an array of useful freeware software to their AT computers like GCompris , Childsplay , and the Zacbrowser , which is an Internet browser specifically designed for autistic children. Touch the Future. How Accessible Technology Works.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Spend time building your donor base by doing things like online fundraisers, fundraising appeals, starting a monthly giving program, and asking folks within your network for donations. This is a subscription-based service, but there’s a way to use it for free – through their Funding Information Network.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But first, some context: Let's start with a volatile mix of Syrian refugees, border conflicts paired with complicated politics , protests, Internet censorship, and a youth unemployment rate of 20 percent. In addition to Syria and Iraq, these are Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and the Azerbaijani exclave: Nakhchivan. (If

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Nonprofit Organizations, Civic Data, and Civic Faith. Marietta, Georgia: Easy SEO Fixes for Your Nonprofit. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: The Internet of Things: You Only Live Twice? Naples, Florida: How to use Technology to Communicate and Manage Volunteers.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

million to support more than 30 collaborative research projects and over 3,000 Hispanic students and faculty across a network of Hispanic-serving institutions. One such project, undertaken in partnership with faculty and students from Georgia Tech, aims to develop a robot guide dog with human behavior modeling and safe reinforcement learning.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2020

AT&T says its services have mostly recovered from a bombing that caused multi-state internet outages on Christmas. The AT&T building, located blocks away from the company’s better-known office tower, provides a regional network connection point in addition to local service.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Is networking leader Cisco in the doldrums? Even when the supply chain issues are solved, Cisco must find a way to innovate and monetize in networking, something it has been struggling with over the last four to six years,” said Holger Mueller, an analyst at Constellation Research. Image Credits: Bloomberg / Getty Images.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

For diabetes patients in Georgia, mobile phones have facilitated an instant connection to help and education. Currently, funding for the project comes from Georgia Tech, the CDC, and Google. " Shaffer, in Arizona, said that his agency was looking to use Twitter and social networking more than texting. Mobile Monitoring.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

This alternative to cloud computing consists of all the computers that are already around us, connected in to a distributed network of devices through smart routers. The reason why The Fog is emerging is because of the amount of data overwhelming our 3G and 4G mobile networks. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

A movement supporting Trump’s false claims of election fraud and hoping to halt the ongoing vote-certification process, Stop the Steal groups are currently promoting pro-Trump rallies in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia, and organizing through platforms like Parler and Discord.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. The result was a stack of policies that are largely offensive to mainstream American sensibilities.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

The bad news is that the entire tech-and-democracy world will now be sitting around for another two days twiddling our thumbs while we wait for the social networking event of the summer. Georgia Wells / The Wall Street Journal ). Talking to strangers on the internet is the new activity of quarantine. Matt Johnston / IT News).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Directed by Jeff Orlowski, The Social Dilemma explores the effect of smartphones and social networks on human behavior. I started writing this newsletter in 2017 after coming to the belated realization that social networks really did have an outsized impact on modern life, and deserved to be taken as seriously. the film is ridiculous?

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Still, Facebook made it clear today that, like other networks before it, the company does consider QAnon a problem. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

When Facebook was founded, the idea of a truly global social network has seemed obvious — inevitable, even. China’s decision to ban American social networks clouded that vision, though, and in the years since the splintering of the internet has only accelerated. Charlie Warzel / The New York Times ). Jordan Wildon / Vice ).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I know you’re very critical of Facebook and the other social networks. But I mean, during this interminable election week, we’ve seen the major social networks, to varying degrees, get more aggressive. A] social network is supposed to be social. Neural networks are a black box at their base, right? Facebook’s a disaster.

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