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Creating Public Transparency: Bringing GuideStar to Israel

NTEN

In early August, NPTech launched Guidestar Israel. It took almost five years to make GuideStar Israel a reality, and it is an incredible resource for Israeli nonprofit organizations. NPTech (established by JDC-Israel and Yad Hanadiv ) is the operating organization behind GuideStar Israel. What is GuideStar Israel? .

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

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Efrat Ben-Dor Erez, NPTech Israel. There are 500 volunteers working for PresenTense each year, mainly from North America and Israel, but also from other places around the globe. They also used wufoo.com , which helps create online forms, process applications for programs, manage magazine applications, subscriptions and more. .

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Visit to Qatar

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As he pointed out in Doha, top companies rarely publish in scientific journals, compared to the amount of know-how they disclose in patent applications. James Moody, also from Australia, presented a concept for a Global Social Responsibility license focused on humanitarian applications of patents and technology.

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How to License Hyper-V on Windows 2008

Tech Soup

Petri IT Knowledge Base, an excellent IT resource from Microsoft MVP in Israel, posted a plain-English post on Windows 2008 licensing concerns when using Hyper-V technology. Tags: GreenTech Server Applications Servers Tech Planning.

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I encouraged this group to think about their social media use as a bridge and shared the story of Pratham Books and how Breakthrough , a human rights organization, is using the Extraordinaries application in a creative way. Tags: india. I've encouraged each of the winners to Tweet to the authors. I'm still recovering. The Nasscom.

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Some Thoughts on Livestreamed Interviews, Engagement, Book Winners, and Finger Puppets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I decided to give away copies of Chris Brogan and Julien Smith's Trust Agents , Shel Israel's Twitterville , and Nancy Smith, John Smith, and Etienne Wenger's Digital Habitats. We asked folks to leave a comment on the blog post sharing why they wanted the book. (I'm What applications should you use for tracking links?

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Twitteracy (Twitter Literacy)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, with web-based applications like Co-Tweet or HootSuite you can share the tweeting across teams, pre-schedule your tweets and other time-saving tricks. Tags: twitter. How does what your feed your Twitter networks support your social media objectives? Stephen Downes went ahead said the word, Twitteracy.