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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Our TechSoup Global partners there are also working hard on disaster relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia through the Community Boost r program and also a project called Mapa Poplava. The New FCC Ruling on Net Neutrality. Find out more on this project here. Earlier this month the U.S.

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The Young and Generous: A New Research Report from Network for Good

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

-Online giving is tracking to the trends of online shopping and banking, and it is the avenue of choice for donors during disasters. New York is the most generous state for online giving; Mississippi and North Dakota are the least generous. Most online giving goes to disaster agencies, followed by animal-related causes.

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What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

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Cellphones and cable boxes; Google and Amazon, Facebook and Twitter; cable boxes and the cameras at stoplights; the bar codes on milk cartons; and the RFID chip that whips you through the toll plaza — each of them captures a sliver of what we're doing, and nowadays they're all calling home. Big Data in Disaster Relief.

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