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How to Keep Donors Engaged Using Emerging Technologies

Cloud 4 Good

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. As people have become increasingly reluctant to give out personal information, challenges present themselves in determining the unique characteristics of donors.

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How Millennials are Transforming Politics and the Public Sector

Achieve

Millennials turned out to vote in record numbers in 2008. Had the Millennial vote been split 50-50 in four states – Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia – Romney would have been elected president, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. Absolutely. A 2016 Washington Post expose.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. Check out the information and application process here. In 2008, we wore funny hats to go with the theme of our panel. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event.

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Open Source Feminism?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Do you think the numbers in Angela’s presentation for FLOSS in general are on target? She’s got some great video blogging, including a short one on “ open source feminism.&# of women in FLOSS?

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

ASU Lodestar Center

She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on such diverse subjects as Program Evaluation & Information Management, International NGOs, and Philanthropy. I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. I recently published an article on formal and informal volunteering in Canada. Lili Wang, Ph.D.,

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

The rise of mobile, social media, crowdsourcing, blogging, and citizen journalism in the mid-2000s created extraordinary new communication and information-sharing opportunities. Ushahidi got its start in early 2008. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Information Coping Skills: Turn off the damn computer and go for a walk. E-Metrics Panel Presentation. Information Coping Skills: How Information Overloaded Are You? ROI and Nonprofit Technology Presentation. Online Community Engagement Strategies. Vote for All These Awesome Nonprofit Panels At SXSW.

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