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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

Newell said that they’ll be building curricula around Portal 2 by developing custom tools that allow students to create content to match educational programs. ” Science gets a swift kick of fun when you can learn about it by being propelled through the air in a game. Players raised over $1.5 million in just five days.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

The wide variety of choices and tools to integrate make this field exciting and challenging terrain for nonprofit leaders; we will take your questions in this one hour live interactive event. Miles also guides Society presence and investment in emerging online tools and markets, and direct-to-constituent online fundraising.

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

We also wish that museums and universities worked together more closely not just for research, but for learning. An educator at the Met recently told us of a group of visitors from Japan that joined a gallery tour and promptly asked to see the works of art featured on Smarthistory.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world.

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Meatball Subs & Knowledge Management

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Thirty minutes later I was still rooting though piles of paper and growing more frantic by the minute when in strolls my friend Phil, just back from Germany or Japan or somewhere and looking to see if I want to go get a meatball sub. it was somewhere in that mess of papers and folders and boxes, but who knew where? Write down your time.

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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

Tech Soup

The NetSquared organizers' events help TechSoup deliver on our shared mission of ensuring that civil society has the tools and skills necessary to use technology effectively. Naples, Florida: Show Off Your Tools! Douala, Cameroon: Strengthening the Capacity of Female University Dropouts. Tokyo, Japan: #NPOxITは仕事になるのか?

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So it’s a great tool for areas that have low internet connection. . Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.” This is a great, great tool. ” and I said, “No. ” Right? So always keep that in mind. Have you seen that?