Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

It originally appeared on NetSquared. For example, France Telecom-Orange has made anonymized records of five million mobile phone users in Cote d'Ivoire available to the research community as part of the Data for Development Challenge. Private companies are also testing the concept by actually sharing data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

I'm still trying to better understand what it all means for nonprofits and maybe we just say to hell with the technology hype & buzzwords and focus on the value of collaborative outcomes that the Web 2.0 (for world to embrace integration it is necessary to focus on our goals and not on the technology. Now we must grow responsibly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

Submitted by Ivan Boothe, publisher of the Rootwork Blog Over at the NetSquared blog, Joe Solomon provided a great roundup of reasons people might be "jaded about social media for change" and ways they overcome it. Too many nonprofits orchestrate "petition drives" that aren't about advocating for anything other than larger membership rolls.

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