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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation is in the form of a network map – so you can tell that they already approach their social change work with a network lens. Teens As Free Agents. I loved hearing Isadora Faber, a pre-teen girl who lives in Florianópolis and creator of page Daily Class on Facebook. ” Philantroteens.

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Using Everyday Technology to Improve Your Services

NTEN

Quinn, Idealware and Amy Wagner, MAP For Nonprofits Many nonprofits think of innovation as a luxury they can’t afford. MAP for Nonprofits and Idealware collaborated on six months of research that began with a survey of 180 human service organizations in Minnesota. By Laura S.

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14 startups we predict will go even bigger in 2013

The Next Web

What if you could invest in any startup on the map right now? – Daniel Brusilovsky , Teens in Tech Labs. It’s an irresistible “what if,” isn’t it? They’ve disrupted a multi-billon, if not trillion-dollar industry, and always put the users first. – Matt Mickiewicz , Flippa and 99designs.

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Everyday Innovation: Using Technology to Improve Your Services

Care2

Working with our new partners at MAP for Nonprofits , we surveyed 180 Minnesota human services organizations about the technologies they were using, and then followed up with 13 of them in detailed interviews. Our new research shows that they can. This week we released a free report detailing our findings.

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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

APIs use to be only for the big guys, but now you’re seeing MVPs include APIs and almost everyone on talk to that doesn’t have an API has one on the road map. Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen. APIs Are Everywhere! Heck, even the White House has issued a directive that all departments need to build an API in 90 days.

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Don’t lose users for eternity in the first 5 seconds: How to survive the blink test

The Next Web

It is a type of cognitive bias known more famously in teen movies, where the girl takes one look at the guy, falls head over heels with him, and overlooks the douchebag tendencies because beauty beats badness in our crazy human brains. These actually map out where the user’s mouse goes, so you can see if most users stay on the top fold (i.e.

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Family tracking app Life360 to acquire wearable location device Jiobit for $37M

TechCrunch

Life360 envisions adding the Jiobit to its existing family safety membership, allowing family members and pets with the device attached to show in the Life360 mobile app’s map interface, alongside other family members. San Francisco-based Life360 made a name for itself over the years as an app that parents love, but teens hate.

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