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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.

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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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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

Get Fully Funded

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. As is doubling the number of food boxes you give out in a year.

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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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