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BiGTech India Connects Nonprofits with IT Students

Tech Soup

NetSquared , an initiative from TechSoup Global, holds similar events all around the world to connect NGOs with the resources they need. NetSquared brings nonprofits together with programmers, designers, and other business professionals in their area. BiGTech will be tracking the projects' progress and reporting back on its blog.

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Lessons From Haiti: Uses of New Media in Disaster Recovery Efforts

Tech Soup

When wildfires devastated the area around San Diego in October, 2007, citizen journalists used e-mail, text messages, and social media sites to collect and disseminate real-time information about the location of the fires, evacuation efforts, meeting places and emergency supplies. magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Deadline March 23, 2007. More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. Follow the links from here.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

This week's Solutionary Woman is 24-year-old Heddy Nam, the Associate to the Chief Operating Officer of Amnesty International USA and co-founder of Never Again , an international network of young people working for peace. Describe the work you do for Amnesty International. Describe the work you do for Amnesty International.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is that why we're seeing so many charity online stores like the one from Campus Kitchens Project and Amnesty International. Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here. That also means good news for the shopping for charity programs.

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