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

Amy Sample Ward

The internet is not new. A similar example is that of an Atlanta city councilman who chose to post a message to Twitter asking for a medic to respond to an unconscious woman on the street rather than to dial 911 when his mobile phone battery was very low. People believe in the internet. Impacts to Philanthropy.

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Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition

Tech Soup

Once you've downloaded the app, all this information is accessible regardless of whether you have phone service or internet access during an emergency. The notification app J-ResQ was developed in response to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Using cell phones as tools for emergency preparedness.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

Causes is the largest Facebook fundraising application and most nonprofits are likely familiar with it. In 2009, The Academy Award winning film The Cove used the activism platform to create one of the most successful causes , bringing together over 1 million people to end the dolphin slaughter in Japan.

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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. One of the main ones that anchors this work is Ushahidi.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

It covers 10 topics including humanitarian uses of drones: • Mobile and cell phones • New uses for TV and radio. Speaking of maps, the Oxford Internet Institute has used Internet traffic data from Alexa to figure each country’s most popular websites. billiion of us use the Internet nowadays. All Things D.

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Cybersecurity: What All Nonprofits Need to Know

The Modern Nonprofit

Now more than ever, we rely on our devices and the internet to connect to the outside world. Two-factor authentication requires you to verify your identity not just with a username and password, but also with something that you have on you, like your cell phone. This is the safest way to access the internet outside of the office.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

We're plugged into our phones. Do they have to fill out an application, go through training? I have them in Japan, and I have them in Germany. We're plugged into our phones. Photo by Rob de la Cretaz "We're so busy. We walk down the street. We're listening to our iPods. We're looking down at our BlackBerries.

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