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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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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. A mobile app that allows you easily conduct mobile searches by simply speaking into your phone using their new “Speak Now&# technology. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki. GroupMe :: groupme.com.

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Social CRM, part 2: Metrics vs. CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

From Wikipedia : Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. And these tools are great at doing CRM with the standard communications methods – email, phone, snail mail, in person contact.

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eBooks #1: ePub is to eBooks as MP3 is to music?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. Soon after came Android phones, and the same thing happened. Sony has it’s own reader and format, although, like the Nook and the Kindle, can read a variety of formats. I won’t go into exhaustive detail here on the wide variety of readers and formats.

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5 Methods for Avoiding Procrastination for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I found this wonderful comic on Mashable “ The Field Guide to Procrastination ” that identifies 12 different methods for work avoidance or procrastination, defined in Wikipedia as “ putting off tasks for a later date.” I have done conference calls on my mobile phone while walking. ” We all do it.

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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. Phone theft is a global epidemic – and it's only getting worse. the Open C and the Open II.

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