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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

Read up on "ingestible" electronic pills, cloud storage price wars, how the Star Trek Tricorder has come to life, and more. The patch relays the info to a cloud app for analysis and in due course the info shows up on a doctor’s smartphone. The Star Trek Tricorder Comes to Life.

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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

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What services would make life better for your animals? Serving as many teens as possible through your youth program is not a goal. How many teens do you want to serve in years one, two, and three? There may be more teens in your community that need support. Survey your community for ideas for long-range goals.

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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

In a recent study, my colleagues and I found a Latino child’s parental self-concept was the most, and, in fact, the only salient predictor of their life satisfaction when compared with other elements of self-concept, such as academics or peers. National youth gang survey analysis. References. ^ [1] National Youth Gang Center.