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Indian social network Public App raises $41 million

TechCrunch

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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Privacy and Security on Social Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A colleague recently shared this video that pokes fun of the “always on, gotta share everything on social networks&# lifestyle for many people here in America. Social networking sites like Facebook make it easy for sensitive information about us to be made public unintentionally.

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Facebook’s next big AI project is training its machines on users’ public videos

The Verge

Teaching AI systems to understand what’s happening in videos as completely as a human can is one of the hardest challenges — and biggest potential breakthroughs — in the world of machine learning. The project, titled Learning from Videos , is also part of Facebook’s “broader efforts toward building machines that learn like humans do.”.

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Subscribe to social media and mobile technology blogs. Get the necessary training (HTML, digital photography, video, social media, and mobile technology). Define metrics of measurement and create a social media ROI spreadsheet. Create an e-mail signature that includes your website, blog, and social networking links.

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11 Tips for Making Nonprofit Press Releases Social and Shareable

Nonprofit Tech for Good

People on social networks ignore links that do not pull up thumbnails and are heavily text-based. Also, if you have share functionality built into your website and your Like, Share or +1 count is low or non-existent, a journalist may think that is because there is no public interest in the story. Social Media'

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The social network commitment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. But there are SO many, and they all have their pros and cons.

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10 Must-Have Skills for Nonprofit New Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s very common for nonprofits to assume that volunteers and interns can effectively manage their mobile and social media presence simply because they are young and came of age during the rise of social networking. Photo and Video Editing Ability. HTML Knowledge. Multitasking.

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