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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. 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

The patch relays the info to a cloud app for analysis and in due course the info shows up on a doctor’s smartphone. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help.

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Pokemon Go and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a parent of two teens, I was curious if there were any potential safety issues to discuss with them or if they had downloaded or wanted to play. I was giving access to all my location data via my phone but more of a concern was that app has complete access to my google account which was a bigger concern. A Few Concerns.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

Analysis shows that giving is shifting online. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Accept tithes online. Text fundraising.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

Analysis shows that giving is shifting online. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Accept tithes online. Text fundraising.

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The Next Step: Performance Management Systems

NTEN

Will you track results of adult literacy tests or teens transitioned into work programs? This can mean easy-to-use tools for managing client contacts and relationships, or even phone lists and birthday reminders. It should also provide tools for flexible, customized data analysis.

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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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