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Using Causes on Facebook to Change the World with Matthew Mahan

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This year he joined a few of us for the Ignite Panel at Blackbaud’s conference where we talked about how social media is helping non-profits change the world. The point here is to focus on your goals and then think about how the online application can help you achieve what mission. He’s the vice president of impact at Causes.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Another great example is Epic Change. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. What do you have to share?

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Unlocking the Magic of Creativity with a Cloud Business Productivity Platform

Tech Soup

In other words, they need to think even further outside of the box than usual and introduce changes to the organization that produce significant value. Technology can be the catalyst for producing these game-changing results. The platform is designed with business people in mind and doesn’t require coding or IT skills.

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Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and her Passion to Change the World. not organized or centralized by specific non-profit organizations) model be sustainable and/or enough to affect real change in the world? Using Causes on Facebook to Change the World with Matthew Mahan. Brian Dresher , director of business development at Mashable. Meet Claire. Meet Matt.

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Cloud Computing Worldwide

Tech Soup

Security in the Cloud Security is one of the largest concerns when considering a move of a system or application to the Internet. Week 2: How Cloud Computing Changes Organizations. Can Cloud Computing Change Organizational Boundaries? Learn how to protect your organization. Reach for the Cloud with Microsoft Services.

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Free Videos for Nonprofits

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He would aggregate individual nonprofit actions and opportunities for change from many sources. They made it open-source and invited anyone who wanted to add actions to the database or develop new applications using the database. He called this Social Actions.

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Cloud Computing Worldwide

Tech Soup

A View of the Cloud from the United States Learn how American nonprofits are using the cloud today, and how that will change over the next few years. Security in the Cloud Security is one of the largest concerns when considering a move of a system or application to the Internet. Week 2: How Cloud Computing Changes Organizations.