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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Notes from SOCAP09: Thoughts on Micro-Donations, Crowd-Sourcing, Radical Collaborations, and Mobile Tech

Tech Soup

On Thursday, I attended the unconference/open space portion of SOCAP09 (Social Capital Markets 2009). Greg Berry , Systems Designer of Nuance Intelligence. This post is cross-posted on my personal blog and on the NetSquared Blog. Here is what you missed, so you don't have to regret not having gone. Boyd Cohen , of 3rd Whale.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AI is developing faster than our regulatory system is prepared to handle and threatens to consolidate power in the tech companies and oppressive governments that deploy AI while making society vulnerable to AI biases, surveillance, and other dysfunctions. Will people be better off in 2030?

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Let’s Connect at the NTC!

Amy Sample Ward

Even if you’ve never participated in an ‘unconference’ event like this, no worries! At the same time, the Internet continues to mature as a gateway for “cloud computing,” in which remote datacenters host data and serve applications over the Web for use across a broad spectrum of devices and IT systems.

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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

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In a larger scope, individuals who work at nonprofits use systems that capture data and information about them. An author, photographer, journalist, Searls is also the current lead of ProjectVRM at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. VRM tools, on the other hand, work on the side of the individual donor.

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Open311: What Nonprofits and Public Libraries Can Gain from Open Government

Tech Soup

I've kind of become an open-data geek in the past few months, largely thanks to NetSquared's unconference at NTC. What if instead, the government made certain data and systems available to citizens, so that we could design and build our own vending machines? You don't get what you wanted out of the machine, so you shake it."

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

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San Francisco, California: Sustainability Unconference (All Day). Birmingham, United Kingdom: Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRMs) for Nonprofits. Pully, Switzerland: Swissneutral: Intro/Discussion "Internet libre, C'est Quoi?" Saturday, May 6, 2017. Monday, May 8, 2017. Tuesday, May 9, 2017.