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How Baby Boomers Use The Internet

TechImpact

Here are some statistics that might just make you shift your online fundraising efforts away from the younger generations and more toward the baby boomers: In the United States alone, one-third of all Internet users in the United States are adults over the age of 50, and represent the largest constituency of active Internet users.(Jupiter

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Nonprofit Tech 2.0 iPhone App :: Version 2.0!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Using SwebApps.com , I quickly threw together and launched an iPhone App for Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in the fall of 2009. Then when searching for “nonprofit&# Apps in iTunes last month, I was surprised to see that the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 of all smartphone App downloads in 2009 were iPhone Apps. The App is nothing fancy.

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Satellite Internet gets the boot

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Satellite Internet gets the boot October 31, 2007 Finally, I have real broadband. We moved last weekend to a town that has actual real cable high speed internet.

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13 of the Best Nonprofit Videos from the Last 13 Years

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Today, approximately 72% of internet traffic is video and one billion hours of that video is watched daily on YouTube. These early adopters were also embracing Myspace when the vast majority of nonprofits hadn’t yet had their aha moment about social media. The videos below are a snapshot of the history of nonprofits using video.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi's Continuing Tech-for-Good Innovations. I was there that year and the competition was intense.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Things We Like (October 2009)

NTEN

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. On the subject of prognositication, Pew Internet asked some smart people about the year 2020. Nobody can predict what the funniest protest signs will be in 2020, but at least we have these doozies from 2009. Read more posts on our blog.