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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I have led Martus outreach and training for the past 4 years and worked with human rights defenders all over the world, but because of the project-specific nature of our work, I interact with each of our partners separately. For me personally, the meeting was a rare experience.

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Five Recent Facebook Upgrades That Nonprofits Need to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For nonprofits with a global audience, this is a long-time needed functionality for Facebook Pages. The ability for fans to translate your Page’s Status Updates into their native language appears to have been launched in October 2011, though I didn’t notice it until very recently.

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. The rational for "seeing data as a state" rather than a donor in Africa to help answer policymakers questions is also explained.

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Five Recent Facebook Upgrades That Nonprofits Need to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For nonprofits with a global audience, this is a long-time needed functionality for Facebook Pages. The ability for fans to translate your Page’s Status Updates into their native language appears to have been launched in October 2011, though I didn’t notice it until very recently.

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How Online Work Can Save America

Tech Soup

In February of 2011, TechSoup Global board member and founder of the nonprofit Samasource , Leila Chirayath Janah published a piece in TechCrunch that explores an unusual aspect of telework. It is cloud-based work, which can be done anywhere where people can access the Internet.

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

Note: This article will focus on international development from my perspective working in an African country, although the questions raised are pertinent to any “developed” country or continent’s relationship to a “developing” region. It began with a bench, and how I came to be standing before that particular bench.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

So how can nonprofits utilize mobile phones for their work? developing economies in Asia and Africa. For those nonprofits working on sustainable development issues - NextDrop uses mobile technology to monitor and improve water flow in urban India and subsequent sustainable development. not have some of these features.

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