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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. A mobile app that allows you easily conduct mobile searches by simply speaking into your phone using their new “Speak Now&# technology.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Mobile for Good: Trends to Watch at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

Beyond wearables, Samsung also announced the newest member of its Samsung Galaxy line of phones, the S5. LG launched six new mobile devices including the G Pro 2 , a phone-tablet ("phablet") hybrid device. More people with Internet access means more people on Facebook. the Open C and the Open II. Security Alert.

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…Who Knows *What* About Me?! Four Tools that Show You How You’re Tracked Online

Tech Soup

According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services.” ” These can be active [the stuff you want to share about yourself with the wider world on the internet] or passive [the data collected about you without you doing much].

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

They provide you with viewable, interactive, and mostly hands-free Internet just above your right eye. Google Glass is by far the most famous of them and is a set of cyborg looking eyeglasses (now in five colors) that like many wearable devices, works in cooperation with an Android phone or iPhone. It also makes phone and video calls.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. . Realizing Potential .

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