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How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

Before the cloud, if you wanted to build a web application (a program that you get to through a browser — Facebook is a good example) you would get yourself a server which would run your application. Similarly, when people visit your application (e.g. At this point, you hire another customer service rep to help them out.

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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. How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief Find out how Second Harvest Japan used cloud-based technologies to serve Japanese communities when disaster struck.

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Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. More specifically we discussed grass roots fundraising and the rapid growth of online platforms that allow people to raise money for the causes they support. Hope140 ’s aim is to do just that. Negatively?

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Cloud Computing Worldwide

Tech Soup

Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International reflects that as more nonprofits move into the cloud, the importance of data to the sector becomes more pronounced. Security in the Cloud Security is one of the largest concerns when considering a move of a system or application to the Internet. Big Data and the Cloud: What's the Link?

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

Thousands of people - with the aid of their computers, mobile phones, and online applications - were able to do important work to save lives and bring resources where they were badly needed, without needing to travel. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters.

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Cybersecurity: What All Nonprofits Need to Know

The Modern Nonprofit

Especially with email, financial accounts, document management and database applications, and linked accounts, such as Facebook. You’ll install an application on your computer and activate it whenever you’re connecting to a public wifi network. You should turn on two-factor authentication: Everywhere you can.

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