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Personal Health Data: It’s Amazing Potential and Privacy Perils

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

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A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good. The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them. As Hersman says , "Sometimes there is just nothing more you can do than report what you see." Ushahidi got its start in early 2008.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

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Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? It doesn't have to be difficult or even expensive; it can even be free. We can help you with that.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? It doesn't have to be difficult or even expensive; it can even be free. We can help you with that.

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