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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Develop shared language. Database Manager. Definitely a keeper for the Cute Dog Theory Wiki ) You can order your copy of Social Change Any Time Every Where on Amazon! The book offers some recipes for culture change. Hold weekly interdepartmental meetings. Encourage brainstorming. Cross disciplinary teams. Internet Director.

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What I’m learning

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. Check out the wiki. at 2:31 pm There was an effort by some folks from Debian (not officially Debian) to work on a distro for Bhutan which uses a language similar to Tibetan.

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Collecting Data in Low Resource Areas: How to Get Started

NTEN

They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. Wikis/Blogs. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). Sometimes, it’s having the solution use local languages or other appropriate cultural marks. These efforts have met with mixed success. Mobile phones.

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Worldwide Lexicon and Volunteer Translation

Tech Soup

WWL maintains a database of user contributions and uses its own ratings system to give higher priority to better translators. Brian has big ideas about reducing language barriers on the Internet, and his enthusiasm is nothing if not contagious. It's a glimpse into the future of the Internet.

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Can Social Network Analysis Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

wiki that gives you a good set of questions to ask after you’ve created a descriptive drawing. You submit the userid and then have to come back a few days later unless it is already in the database. Apparently this team chemistry is important to winning. Marty Kearns has a diagnostic tool over in his Advocacy 2.0

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OpenNGO: CiviCRM in Khmer translation has been started!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

David's description in the OpenNGO wiki : OpenNGO will be the first internationalized, open-source CRM platform designed specifically for nonprofits, offering a web-based donor database integrated with online engagement tools (email and advocacy).