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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

This input led them to adopt an Emergent Learning framework and feminist evaluation principles , which recognize evaluation as a political act and the information generated as key to advocacy. We’re engineering responses, rather than being open to what happens.” All we know is what they tell the donors they’re doing.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). Based in the U.K.,

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This concept has been pioneered by the Internet Archive with its Open Library can lend a digital copy of a book for a period of time as long as it (or a partner library) owns a physical copy of that book which it holds back from being lent to someone else. He came back the next day and gave me unbelievably positive news. And, the U.S.

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Google+ – Yi-Tan Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also talked about the need for better filtering, especially if more people are going to share and as Google opens the doors. I really want better community management options such as open or shared or topical circles. Google started with the asymmetric model of sharing first because it is hard for people to grasp.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement.

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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Seattle, Washington: Know Thyself: Considerations for Nonprofit SharePoint Adoption. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Technology. Open Data Leads to Development: Is This Wishful Thinking? Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Data. 501 Connects.