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Jocelyn Harmon: People, Words, Technology & Truth: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Jocelyn has a bachelor's degree in literature from New York University and a master’s degree in sociology from University of Washington. Another big treat is for me is Amazon Overnight Delivery. Access to new and diverse individuals. Instant connection to unlimited knowledge and ideas!

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

This decision is largely because of a clash of titans between huge economic entities like big ISPs one side, like Comcast and AT&T, and content providers like Amazon and Netflix on the other side. Find what TechSoup Global thinks about the new FCC net neutrality decision here. All comments are publicly viewable here.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I wanted to go out and experience the world, so I went at nineteen years old to the Amazon in Ecuador and ended up working with indigenous women who were struggling because there had been a oil contamination (four times Exxon Valdez) on their traditional lands. They're going to come into New York City, D.C.,

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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. The UN Global Pulse initiative.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. The term platform cooperativism is relatively new, introduced in 2014 by Trebor Scholz, associate professor of culture and media at the New School in New York City.

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Introducing Candid’s U.S. Social Sector Dashboard, Chapter 1 

Candid

In the United States, the social sector employs over 12 million people (roughly the combined populations of New York City and Los Angeles) and generates more than $3.7 nonprofit sector knowledge base from Independent Sector , Nonprofit Quarterly , and the Urban Institute , among others. . trillion infrastructure package).

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