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CTOs for Good: White Paper

NTEN

In 2011, NTEN, with support from the Knight Foundation , convened the CTOs for Good forum and conducted follow-up interviews with the participants in order to document and share the group’s experiences and challenges. A deliberate, cautious, phased approach to migrating applications and data to the cloud.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The purpose of the tool was to empower Kenyans to document and report on incidents in real-time, giving the media, governments, and relief organizations a true picture of what was happening on the ground. In less than an hour after the 2011 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Ushahidi platform was used to spotlight areas of refuge.

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This global Martus meeting brought together individuals who use Martus to address different human rights documentation and security needs in widely varied projects, to share their successes and challenges with the software. What if you could quickly and easily import data from other formats, like a Word document, PDF file or photograph?

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long. Enter The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : VIDEO: 2011: A Look Back. The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. .

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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011). View more documents from E-Mediat. Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut.

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How Standardize Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Measurement: Use This Grid

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix. The “ Valid Metrics Framework “ looks at communications in three phases with each having specific metrics. The document includes examples from different industries, including nonprofit organizations and for advocacy campaigns. Click for Larger Image.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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