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A Consumer's Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools from Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

View MacBookPro Travelogue in a larger map This map show the route that a new MacBook Pro made from a factory in China to Arizona. Colleague Alan Levine customized a google map. I can just imagine Alan tracking his new computer's journey using the UPS Tracker feature. What's even better is that the software, google maps is free.

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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We are creating whole new infrastructures that didn’t exist before (think Facebook, Google, etc.) Just Google it. The argument goes – nonprofits need up-to-date tools to do their work effectively. We leave that to China, Ghana, and other countries. But it also means that we can use lighter clients.

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What Is Your Net2Local Group Cooking Up?

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Denver, CO: Lighten Your Load with Online Tools. Victoria, Canada: Showing Up: Using Online Tools to Drive Real-World Actions. Research Triangle Park, NC: Google for Nonprofits. Guatemala: CampusTec - evento de Google. hosted our first NetSquared Camp in China. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Monthly meetup.

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Your NetSquared Holiday Gift!

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Naples, FL: 25 Social Media Tools - 501 Techclub SWFL Netsquared. Online: Part Two Google For Nonprofits Google Ad Grants with Net2 Northern Michigan. We held our first NetSquared Camp in China and co-organizer Matt Jung reports on innovative Chinese tech for good projects. Taipei, Taiwan: FB can not do?

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can’t use this tactic in China, for example, where Facebook (and Twitter, among other social media channels) is blocked. You can use a simple online survey tool like Google Drive or SurveyMonkey to collect information about your audience. Survey Your Tribe.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

Hacker Helper is a free online tool that will allow volunteer developers to prepare for hackathons. The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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5 Questions for Jay Frost

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Is the use of prospect research becoming more mainstream or still just a tool for large nonprofits? Every day, someone at a nonprofit is looking for a donor’s address or phone number online, Googling a name for past giving or searching for some biographical information on LinkedIn. They just don’t know they are doing it!