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Haiti Earthquake: Orphans, Crisis Mapping, and Tech Volunteers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who are not familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or time line. Crisis Camps.

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Flying High: Some Truly Creative Ways that Drone Technology is Being Utilized

Byte Technology

But now, in parts of Africa and Asia, drones being flown at night have been able to detect the presence of poachers and give immediate locations that allow wildlife rangers to deploy quickly and stop the horrible killings. They can measure levels of air pollution, plot land erosion, create heat maps and even collect water samples.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward.

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A NetSquared Happy Holidays

Tech Soup

See if there's a group close to you by searching our map. The NetSquared Victoria team has been investigating tools for online collaboration. The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America.

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Naples, Florida: Collaboration Tools for Board and Remote Workers. Chicago, Illinois: Knowledge Mapping for Greater Social Good.

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What's NetSquared Up to in May?

Tech Soup

They offer an opportunity to convene locally to share ideas, learn from one another, and collaborate on projects for real world impact. Check out our map of events to find your closest group. Johannesburg, South Africa. They collaborated with the TechSoup Global team to bring events into their communities. New Groups.

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Saving the World One Tech Innovation at a Time

Tech Soup

In collaboration with the Guardian , TechSoup created the Technology for Good report as a valuable repository of inspiration for the public and private sectors, funders, and other change makers who want to support technology for social good. Get Informed and Get Inspired. The Difference Technology Makes. These technologies (and many more!)