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Cloud for Good Announces New Education Accelerators for Advancement and Recruiting & Admissions

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Our award-winning team speaks the language and becomes an extension of our client’s team. We’ve taken all of that knowledge and expertise to create best-in-breed solutions, which results in our clients experiencing faster time to value,” said David Sicoli, Managing Director, Education Industry at Cloud for Good.

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Hurricane Irene and the Nonprofit Social Media Storm

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Their team of digital volunteers, already trained in public affairs and talking to the media, used specific language to represent themselves as Red Cross voices online. For Hurricane Irene, the Red Cross used volunteers to listen as well as respond in the social media space, to ensure 24 hour coverage during the storm.

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A View of the Cloud from India

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It's a highly diverse country where 415 languages are spoken, 30 of which are major languages with over one million speakers each. billion people, of which over 70% are rural. It is one of the BRIC nations with its economy growing at 8% annually. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jumo means “together in concert” in Yoruba, a West African language. About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 What is Jumo?

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Data Are Not Information

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But what if I tell her in a language she doesn't understand? This is well-addressed in a 2010 Economist cover story "Data, data everywhere." Joe Hellerstein, a computer scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, calls it 'the industrial revolution of data.' What if I don't speak loudly enough?

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

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And they say China is being Orwellian with language as they prepare for the Olympics.) LONGSTANDING AND ACCEPTED PRACTICES ARE SUDDENLY DECLARED ILLEGAL The mining industry has been operating for almost 30 years with the understanding that these practices were legal and even encouraged by the government. It is a big mess.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

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Stacey does feel that it's a useful and simple tool that can help spread your story, but had there not been volunteers in the public relations industry involved in the group, she may not have made the time to use the platform. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. That directed the build.