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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

SMS allows conservation campaigns to reach a bigger audience, especially of people who are harder to find in rural and expansive areas. This campaign needs to communicate details about all hunting laws, most of which are completely unknown to the average person. The program is still in its infancy. and regional offices.

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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. While the overwhelming consensus was that such behavior isn’t right, there are few laws on the books to address these scenarios.

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Blog Day and One Web Day: Are You Participating?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

August 31, 2007 is the third annual Blog Day. I enjoyed Sopheap's recent post about public education about not littering in Cambodia ) After I get back in September, OneWebDay is next community web event on my calendar scheduled for September 22, 2007. For some people, just getting access is an obstacle. For others, it???s

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources. VietNet-ICT’s vision is to narrow the digital divide by providing ICT access to poor people in Vietnam. All people deserve equal access to opportunities. It is densely populated with 92 million people.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.

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Mining is in the news a lot recently because of the terrible tragedy in Utah where six miners are presumed dead in a mine collapse and at least three more have been killed trying to rescue them. You can read about it more in today’s New York Times. With an entire mountaintop in the river the river stops, or gets diverted.

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Observations from The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, Month 1

Museum 2.0

I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. Which leads to the question of people: who is getting involved? These people are smart, creative, and looking for an outlet/experimental client that we are thrilled to offer them.

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