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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

sgEngage

All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them. Compared to the clunky image files, this means it can be consumed much more efficiently at scale. Richards, Executive Director of the James F. and Marion L. Business Education Compact.

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HOW TO: Launch an iPhone App for Your Nonprofit for $25 a Month

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2010 is going to be the year that the large national and international nonprofits launch iPhone Apps. Over time, design and functionality will likely improve significantly, but if you want to be a very early adopter and wow the world with your cutting edge adoption of the Mobile Web, then Sweb Apps is for you. . Very expensive.

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Online Learning Trends That You Can’t Ignore

Gyrus

Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010. Usage of videos, podcasts, micro-blogs, diagrams, images, questions, and quizzes not only helps in increasing the participation and completion rate of training courses but also engages the learners in a better way.

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HOW TO: Launch a Group Text Messaging Campaign for Your Nonprofit for Free

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Personally, the ads don’t bother me, but you can decide for yourself by experiencing my ad-supported TextMarks campaign [see image for example of ads]. Many small to medium-sized nonprofits can not afford these vendors, but at least through tools like TextMarks and FrontlineSMS, they can at least be early adopters.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.” Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match. Costs & Benefits.

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The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show: Not Many New Green Gadgets Under the Sun

Tech Soup

Of course rapid adoption of the new Apple iPad and other e-readers are one of the big IT stories this year. LG, however, unveiled some super LED TVs that use up to 25% less energy than conventional LEDS with no image quality loss. Last week, I talked about how green these devices are.

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Are Mobile Apps Serving the Underserved?

Tech Soup

Apps created specifically to address the needs of low-income and underserved communities in the United States are few and far between – despite the fact that smartphone adoption rates are higher within minority communities where social services are in greater demand and poverty tends to be more concentrated.

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