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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She met us at the airport and dropped our bags off at our hotel and took us to a major crafts fair being held outside of town (where we saw products produced by numerous social enterprises: more on the social enterprise action in Laos and Thailand in my next post). I think the team was thrilled to have someone from Bookshare visit.

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Climate Warming and Palo Alto -> Miradi and the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That’s why we, in conjunction with the Conservation Measures Partnership, have developed Miradi , our groundbreaking software application for running biodiversity and conservation projects. Knowing whether one’s strategies to help the environmental actually work, is rarely so simple. Miradi (Miradi 3.0

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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

People simply choose a country of interest (such as China or Thailand) and an area of interest (such as education or the environment) and find a list of vetted opportunities to which they can donate money or give their time. would you rather connect with a group or individual in need half way around the world?

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Changing the Present has launched a Facebook application adding to the virtual gift community. This group is an international network of people interested in e-learning, is organizing a trip to Thailand and Laos. Nancy White writes about the Future of Learning in a Networked World self-financed learning journey.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. The Tools, Thoughts and Things one can Do with a little Time and Hardly any Resources blog lengthy post entitled, Village Green vs Walled Garden , talks about the challenges of getting desktop office applications users to switch.

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

Since moving its systems to Salesforce, the team has been able to stay lean by cutting out hours of what used to be manual data entry and management of disparate spreadsheets and applications. Regional statistics feed Google Adwords campaigns and support decisions on where to commit advertising dollars.

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Promise and Peril: Martus for Human Rights in Burma

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I recently had the pleasure of visiting one of our longtime Martus partners in Thailand, The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ( ND-Burma ). ND-Burma, a Thailand-based coalition of over ten human rights groups, has been collecting narrative testimonies from victims and witnesses of human rights abuses by the Burmese regime.

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