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Please Join VisionLink In Welcoming Aaron Titus To Our Proud Family!

VisionLink

As a former member of the New Jersey Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (NJ VOAD), Aaron coordinated Hurricane Sandy and Irene response efforts for Mormon Helping Hands. from the George Washington School of Law, and his undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Utah. Aaron Titus received his J.D.

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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

This is what I wrote: "The specific and primary purpose of the corporation is to engage in educational and charitable activities which educate the public regarding the appropriate use of computer technology." More than 80 such projects are available on the platform with open-source code to enable replication.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

federal law supports braille instruction. Through this R&D Center, we are working to revolutionize the availability of accessible images and tactile graphics by targeting standards and developing open source tools that help close the gap between what technology can do automatically and what requires expert human work.

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10NTC: Freedom for IP's Brian Rowe on Content Sharing

Tech Soup

Rowe has a law degree and worked for Creative Commons, though he now works at Freedom for IP , which calls itself "a grass roots organization dedicated to exploring the interaction of Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights.". He also talks about his Utilikilt. Tools Web 2.0

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Better marketing for nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

Each organization also needs to keep community members loyal and active. Join the open source culture. The open source culture allows many organizations to use the innovations and labor of others and in turn contribute your own organizational strengths and capabilities. The great news is that you don't need to.

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Facebook Ad Platform

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. Ads can be targeted by profile data. What does this mean for nonprofits? Be Helpful.

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Member Round Up: Numbers and Nominations!

NTEN

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data.

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