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How Save the Children Is Using An Edgy Infographic As Part of A Multi-Channel Campaign for Children in Syria

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Save the Children’s Ettoré Rossetti, Director of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Save the Children USA, emailed me an infographic on the impact of the Syria crisis on children. The crisis in Syria is now entering year three and the situation is getting worse for children not better. Seems a little edgy?

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As Feynman said when asked about winning the Nobel Prize: “The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it [my work].” Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The more we use technology in our education and health systems, the more data we collect about how people learn and what keeps us healthy or makes us sick. I knew we could help a lot of people if we focused on finding a sustainable—instead of a highly profitable—way to develop technology for the social good.

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Refugee Response: TechSoup's New Online Technology Resource for NGOs Helping Refugees

Tech Soup

According to Pew Research Center , more than 60 million people or nearly 1 in every 100 people on earth have been displaced from their homes. That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Why NGOs and Humanitarian Workers Need Technology. spanhidden

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15 Powerful Quotes from the Social Good Summit

Connection Cafe

It’s no longer a question of whether young people can take leadership, it’s whether the rest of the world can keep up with them.” – Jayamatha Wickramanay, UN Youth Envoy. It won’t be the content creators that change the world in a world where everyone creates content, it will be the content curators. “It

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Facebook Radically Changed the News Feed – Here’s What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Connection Cafe

Public content from businesses, brands and media has “crowded out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other.” How will the News Feed rank public content? To spark more meaningful conversations between people , the News Feed will now prioritize: 1. What does this mean for your nonprofit?

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We’re getting very worried that our organization and the people we serve: people with print disabilities (i.e., Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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