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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues. Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.

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An Interview with Lorene Straka, Joanna Eng, and Mari Velasco from the Idealist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An interview Mari Velasco, Lorene Staka, and Joanna Eng of the Idealist Photos in flickr The Idealist , a project of Action Without Borders ,connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a better world. met the founder, Ami Dar, on a subway two weeks after moving to New York in 1999. Social media, etc.)

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What is Jumo? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a.

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We’ll be matching people based on their skills and interests with organizations around the world that need their input. It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”- Where Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 6: Museum 2.5 by Elaine Heumann Gurian

Museum 2.0

Many people use references to “third spaces” as short hand when discussing any sites that are neither home nor offices. A meter set in a dense forest not only looks different from one in the airport but is peopled much less often. Most importantly, people feel safe enough to enter or walk through these spaces. I was excited.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

A list of wrong assumptions about the use of big data for humanitarian relief is pointed out and you can have a look at some of the big data presentations at the recent Personal Democracy Forum held in New York. It will also give people the tools to help them work with and understand the power of data and aid data reuse.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Britt Bravo: I think one of the things that make the Global Fund special is how women can submit grants, the lack of bureaucracy involved, and maybe you can talk a little bit about how you choose the people who are funded. I am quick to remind people in the United States that those rights were fought for.

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