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Dining for Women on NBC Nightly News

Have Fun - Do Good

Longtime readers know that I'm a big fan of Dining for Women , an organization that facilitates "potlucks for a purpose." I had the privilege of meeting Dining for Women's founder, Marsha Wallace in 2006, when she invited me down to Los Angeles for an event Dining for Women sponsored, an evening with Wangari Maathai (how cool is that!).

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Why Privacy Matters (or Should) to Nonprofits

NTEN

Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare for BlueCross" (March 1, 2010, CIO.com). Wanted: Defense Against Online Bank Fraud" (February 8, 2010, Wall Street Journal). Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). Have you mitigated your privacy risks?

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Social Video Questions, Answered: Join TechSoup July 20

Tech Soup

cloud-based tools that facilitate group process around mapping, making. Hardy , Los Angeles, CA @eveslime and the @limelightprjct Sheila Hardy is an award-winning producer, writer and owner of Eve's Lime. 2010 as a way of using film, photography, and real-time reporting. Collaboration. We will focus. He founded the.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. It featured mariachis, an extraordinarily odd panorama , and a fabulous beer hall with superb french fries.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Such information is concealed by big tech cabals who rely on microwork sites to facilitate projects of a secret nature. 9 Only the latest strategy in the militarization of urban space, facial recognition has unleashed a police armageddon on poor neighbourhoods, most notably in the vast carceral cities of Los Angeles and Shanghai.

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Elections app will soon be updated for 2010.). The Green Map app is another that facilitates discovery and connects us to local green environments. Finally, NeighborGoods uses your street address to facilitate one-to-one borrowing and trading of useful stuff. No more paper and a much better experience.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”.

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