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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Data Philanthropy is Good for Business - Forbes : Data philanthropy could make a real difference, and it makes good business sense as well. To get there, we need to work together to develop a viable approach that contributes both to public good and business continuity, while also protecting both individual privacy and corporate competitiveness. Global Pulse will be talking about big data for the public good at the O’Reilly Strata Summit in New York (being held today and tomorrow).

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

CharityVillage Research: An Insider's Guide to Social Media Resources for New Nonprofit Professionals : Are you a newbie when it comes to social media for social good? Hang in there — technically you can be considered a veteran once you’ve been on Twitter longer than eight months! Whether you’ve just transitioned to a nonprofit sector job from the corporate world, or you’ve recently been handed "social media things" as yet another item on your plate at work, you may find yourself exposed to a l

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Why Twitter, Why Now? | Impatient Optimists : Font Size Print September 21, 2011 Why Twitter, Why Now? Melinda French Gates As the head of a foundation focused on what I consider to be some of the world’s most pressing issues—health, education, and poverty—I’m constantly aware of the urgency underlying our work. There is not a moment to waste when millions of people’s lives and futures are at stake.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The Charity Social 100 Index | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional : Voluntary sector blog banner The Charity Social 100 Index Charities need to develop more effective social strategies for a cash-strapped age reddit this Comments (2) Anne McCrossan and Steve Bridger Guardian Professional, Monday 19 September 2011 04.30 EDT Article history Abacus The index examines how charities in the UK are using social media.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The Charity Social 100 Index | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional : Voluntary sector blog banner The Charity Social 100 Index Charities need to develop more effective social strategies for a cash-strapped age reddit this Comments (2) Anne McCrossan and Steve Bridger Guardian Professional, Monday 19 September 2011 04.30 EDT Article history Abacus The index examines how charities in the UK are using social media.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Geoff Livingston: Classic DC Nonprofit Strength Meets Social in Mega Giving Day : What happens when you take classic nonprofit strengths and match them with the nimbleness of social technology, all to benefit a city's nonprofits? You get Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington, a giving day for the metropolitan DC region on November 9. The event hopes to raise millions of dollars in donations and create new relationships between digitally savvy donors and nonprofits.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Non-Profit Theater and Technology | Gwydion Suilebhan : Raise your hands if you are in any way responsible for helping to run a non-profit theater. Keep them up if you emphasize the first of those two words over the second — non-profit rather than theater — when you think about the nature of your work. Most of us, I suspect, prefer to focus on the fact that we make art and share it with the world, rather than the fact that we run non-profits.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Mobile Phone Data Helped Aid Groups Target Quake Relief in Haiti, Report Finds | PND | Foundation Center : Mobile Phone Data Helped Aid Groups Target Quake Relief in Haiti, Report Finds A new report from Columbia University and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, offers evidence that in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, anonymous cell phone data helped aid groups target emergency supplies to those most in need, BBC News reports.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Is social media changing the way we contribute to charity? | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional : There is no doubt that times are changing and that social media has played a very notable part in this, both for business and personal communication. What is interesting however is how this has had, in my opinion, a significant impact on how people choose to give to charity and how businesses are approaching CSR.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Volunteering Will Save Your Career (Or Put You In A New One) | Fast Company : Starting today, LinkedIn will let users list their public-spirited deeds and philanthropic efforts alongside job experience under a new section called "Volunteer Experience and Causes." According to a survey by the social network, more then ever volunteer experience is valuable information that could give job hunters the boost they need to get promoted or hired.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Volunteering Will Save Your Career (Or Put You In A New One) | Fast Company : Starting today, LinkedIn will let users list their public-spirited deeds and philanthropic efforts alongside job experience under a new section called "Volunteer Experience and Causes." According to a survey by the social network, more then ever volunteer experience is valuable information that could give job hunters the boost they need to get promoted or hired.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Doyle McManus: Technology that protects protesters - latimes.com : This was a problem we could do something about," said Verclas, who runs a New York-based nonprofit organization called MobileActive.org.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Cool Apps Roundup: Green Apps : This is the first in a series of blog posts that we'll be doing as part of our new App It Up project called Cool Apps Roundup. This inaugural post will cover a variety of green or environmental apps that are already out there.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

What the Tech? : Yesterday, at Bisnow's Association Tech Summit, CTOs and CIOs shared their thoughts on location-based services, evolving IT jobs, innovation, and more.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Newark Schools Start to See Impact of 'Facebook Money' - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Newark Schools Start to See Impact of ‘Facebook Money’ September 27, 2011, 9:46 am After a year in which the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100-million grant to Newark, N.J.’s public schools often generated conflict and controversy, the city is seeing concrete results from the windfall, The Star-Ledger writes in an assessmen

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

A Social Revolution: How New Media is Changing Nonprofits : Twenty years ago, email was a new phenomenon that revolutionized the way we communicate, but today even email is sometimes considered archaic: Canadians are world leaders in the use of social media with 79% of Canadians saying they use social media with half of them visiting sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube daily.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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