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World Water Day: The key to sustainability is data

Amy Sample Ward

FLOW is an on-site technology that broadcasts data instantaneously to the Water for People website/FLOW map providing important information about the operating status of WFP projects. I’m really excited to see what corollary projects or data sets can be incorporated into the FLOW system and map, too! Sustainability.

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HOW TO: Tweet for an International Audience

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Additionally, 24timezones.com features a world map with current times plotted and displayed worldwide. 2) Download Google Chrome for easy translation. Google Chrome has a built-in applet that can translate Web pages into numerous languages with one click. Google Chrome makes it very easy!

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Great reads from around the web on February 1st

Amy Sample Ward

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One "One of the things I love about working at Google is that you can come up with an idea one day and the next day start getting to work to make it a reality.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Google Mobile :: google.com/mobile. intl/en/landing/internetstats. A collection of economic and media trends and stats.

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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

Be as we have seen in events around the world, the revolution will be tweeted, photographed, mapped and posted to our status. The revolution may not be televised, but no matter where you are, you can now have a front row seat to the broadcast. How To: Use Tech to Organize Today.

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Scary Security Stories to Tell in the Dark

Tech Soup

His Google account was taken over and deleted. His Twitter account was used as a platform to broadcast hatespeech to his thousands of followers. In 2011, the group LulzSec hacked into PBS's website and posted an image of the spooky Nyan Cat as retaliation against the network's broadcast of a WikiLeaks documentary.

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Nonprofit Technology News for February 2014

Tech Soup

The New York Times Outs Google+. As charities incorporate social media more and more in communications, and we’re also becoming more sensitive about who owns and uses our digital identities, I read with interest Claire Cain Miller’s New York Times piece entitled The Plus in Google Plus? It’s Mostly for Google.

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