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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation draws from a 2012 survey of the “ Always On Generation ” that provides insights from experts on the benefits and drawbacks of a hyperconnected life and how it is rewiring the young people’s brains. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. There are lots of ways to collect data on the current practices of your organization- common best practices are surveying and interviewing.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

The patch relays the info to a cloud app for analysis and in due course the info shows up on a doctor’s smartphone. A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. Cloud Storage Price Wars Update.

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Benetech and the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Big Data Without Defining Success First Is A Big Mistake

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It refers to large data sets that requires powerful software tools to capture, storage, search, sharing, analysis, visualization and sense-making – or what DJ Patel calls “ Data Jutjitsu.” It was a text campaign where teens opted in to receive texts on their mobile phones from the “baby.”

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Using Data to Change the World: How DoSomething.Org Does It

Tech Soup

It refers to large datasets that requires powerful software tools to capture, store, search, sharing, analysis, visualization and sense-making – or what DJ Patel calls " Data Jutjitsu." DoSomething.org has a big social change goal: To harness teenage energy and unleash it through national campaigns on causes teens care about.

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Research Friday: Out-of-School Time Programs for Latino Youth

ASU Lodestar Center

This immigration paradox has contributed to the teen pregnancy rates among Latinas, which is currently higher than any other major race/ethnic group in the U.S., Latino youth have a number of challenges that are often not experienced by their non-Latino counterparts. National youth gang survey analysis. Balistreri, K.