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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

Tech Soup

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups. More and more, now we can.

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Attention All Shoppers: Online Fundraising Metrics Are In!

NTEN

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.

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Why Nonprofits Need to Grow their Online Lists - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008. The total amount of money raised online increased by 26 percent from 2007 to 2008. The matching success rate is typically 10% to 20%.

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Replay: Growing Your Online Communities and Getting Them to Give Online (and Off) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Converting online supporters and email subscribers into donors and integrating your online and offline fundraising efforts are indispensable. Join us to learn how your organization can increase donations on and offline this year. It is 25 pages of awesome information related to Adwords and CPA. All rights reserved.

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. For example, if a family is looking for their missing mother, they can use the search engine to find images that volunteers have tagged with “adult” and “female.” More and more, now we can.

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Whats an Email Address Worth? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Thanks also to Vinay Bhagat at Convio for letting us use data from the new, soon to be released, 2008 Benchmark Study.