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Davos Codes: Connecting Students’ Passion for Their Planet with Technology

Saleforce Nonprofit

Through a range of projects that combine science and technology, such as monitoring air and water quality and local wildlife, students develop a wealth of skills applicable to their futures—from learning to own and take responsibility for an entire project to discovering the impact of data analysis and sharing at local and global levels. “In

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Research Friday: ASU is an Important Central Hub for Nonprofit Organizations

ASU Lodestar Center

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook.

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APIs for Social Media Integration and More: A Gentle Introduction for Nonprofits

NTEN

Websites today are often full-blown applications. API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 Focus on the word “interface”, which means facilitating communication between two different applications. Advocacy and Political Groups.

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WeAreMedia: Help Us Crowdsource A Hollywood Ending

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. WeAreMedia Choose Your Own Adventure Webinar where we look at strategy maps and took deep dives into tactics like listening/engagement, spreading buzz , storytelling , and social networking.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

Luckily, we, like all successful groups in the field, excelled at anecdotal evaluation. Mobile phones have gotten to a price point where even the most poor can afford them -- and GSM networks, financed a dollar at a time through prepaid scratch cards, are increasingly ubiquitous. . Mobile phone based applications and service .

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Many Uses of FriendFeed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy.

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Mapping Web2.0 Censorship: Access Denied Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 It will also facilitate collaboration between activists, allowing them to find each other, share tactics and strategies and experiences. tools and websites. websites (e.g.

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