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What if Cloud Vendors Go Out of Business or Delete Your Account?

Tech Soup

How Big Is the Cloud Data Security Problem? Nearly all the major cloud vendor companies like Google, Microsoft, Sony, and Amazon have been hit by hacker attacks that have caused service disruptions. In February 2011 Google inadvertently deleted 150,000 Gmail accounts due to an internal software problem.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

It’s called the TechBridge Nonprofit Exchange and it is designed to address the problem of grantmakers’ reluctance to fund infrastructure improvements for charities. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Pathways to Education is dealing with the large and troubling Canadian high school drop out problem.

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Why Are Charity Mobile Phone Donation Programs Going Extinct?

Tech Soup

In the world of electronics recycling, mobile phones are a problem. TechSoup has long sent our old phones to the 911 Cell Phone Bank , a nonprofit that provides emergency cell phones and funds to meet the unexpected and urgent needs of law enforcement and disaster victims. Amazon Electronics Trade-In Store. According to the U.S.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud

Tech Soup

Keep in mind that every technology runs into problems and no cloud vendor can guarantee 100% availability for their services. Realistically, the big cloud vendors (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) Image: happy clouds. Everything in the cloud is stored. redundantly. Questions Cloud Vendors Won't Answer. And that's okay.

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The Bots are Here: Leading With Our Humanity in the Age of Automation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conversation with Yeshi is “smart,” meaning that she asks and answers questions with a variety of images, maps, text, and videos. 86% said yes, uncovering a widespread problem and prompting Liberia’s Minister of Education to work with UNICEF on addressing it.

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The Wildness in the Corner: A Discussion with Jason Nelson

Museum 2.0

It’s this idea of taking your fiction or poetry and dispersing it out on the web in places where people can enter things—like into an Amazon book review. But when we talk about hiddenness, there's this problem. This is what I'm trying to do with dispersed fiction: to hide it all over the web. Or do you think it can hold up on its own?

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What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

Tech Soup

Cellphones and cable boxes; Google and Amazon, Facebook and Twitter; cable boxes and the cameras at stoplights; the bar codes on milk cartons; and the RFID chip that whips you through the toll plaza — each of them captures a sliver of what we're doing, and nowadays they're all calling home. Big Data in Disaster Relief.

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