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Five Ways Social Media is Helping to Build Social Justice Movements

Care2

Pre-internet, people were limited to these passionate conversations with friends in person or by phone. Then in the 90’s people had some of these conversations via online forums and listservs. Creates more open and transparent conversations about thought-provoking issues.

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Tech Planning Tips for Every Nonprofit or Library

Tech Soup

Julie described the library's community as "economically depressed" and a place where the digital divide is real: most people only access the Internet from their phones. The library, which serves about 4,000 people, has no dedicated IT staff and a budget of about $200,000 per year. TechSoup Product Donations.

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Vlogging to Cambodia: Eath Chhnon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Phone calls are expensive and if they're lucky they can exchange email. Of course, not everyone in Cambodia has Internet access. t have computers or Internet access or even electricity. s why I started a listserv to help people from Cambodia to learn how to do it. t connect with their family in a visual way. they don???t

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Information Coping Skills for Memory Loss? Writing it down.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. In my younger years, I could easily remember phone numbers, urls, addresses, people names, or what I ate for lunch. I can't do that anymore which is a normal part of aging or a by-product of consuming too much information called Internet Alzheimers.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Does that include cell phones? If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics. hard to use ?"

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