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Foot Traffic Philanthropy: Location Based Mobile Application - CauseWorld

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Today, TechCrunch wrote about a new mobile application called CauseWorld Here's how it works: CauseWorld app users earn “karma points” when they walk into stores and check in with their cell phone. Sort of like embedded giving that Lucy Bernholz talks about, I think. The application is well designed and is fun.

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LinkedIn Applications: I just added my blog and slideshare content! Wow!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Earlier this week LinkedIn announced its applications platform that includes a small number of well-chosen apps that can enhance your professional networking profile. For my profile, I added BlogLink (it posts my blog posts to my profile automatically) and SlideShare's Application. (In tags: app slideshare ).

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How do Social Networks applications incorporate the ladder of engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I found this slideshare show by Michael Weiksner, BJ Fogg, and Xing Kin Lui from a class at Stanford called " Creating Engaging Applications on Facebook." " They are taking a multi-disciplinary look at applications, including a focus on persuasion technology.

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Sharing My Learnings about Facebook with Threads, An Easy Multimedia Application

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been fooling around with Facebook and since you can't view a group or profile (unless you have a Facebook) account, I decided to use this application to spark a discussion about what we are learning about using Facebook for nonprofits. Read Alan Levine 's post for an excellent introduction and examples. It's really easy to do.

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Interview: Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink on the Google AI Impact Challenge

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We’ve already seen AI’s potential to transform our own products and benefit the world through applications like flood forecasting or monitoring whale species. Many successful applications of AI in the social sector are the result of a multi-partner approach. Another example is ZSL ’s application of AI to monitor biodiversity.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

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The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. . models and web and mobile applications), and share these investments with existing sector associations. .

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Claim Your Nonprofit Scholarship for BoxWorks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The simple application to request a scholarship is here. The good news is that your nonprofit can request a full scholarship. The first 800 eligible nonprofit leaders will receive a full scholarship (a greater than $1000 cost savings)!