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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? What if organizations did not have government funding or pursue it? Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China. What would ngos look like if they were completely virtual?

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

And another great thing about WhatsApp that not other messaging apps have is that you can share audios. Audios, files. And so what we did, we did like a little flyer on WhatsApp that had like the face of the person, the main highlights of the episode, and we send this to people with a little text and with the audio of the podcast.

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What I Learned From @Sree Sreenivasan Chief Digital Officer of @MetMuseum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Many Small Experiments To Learn: The Met is constantly doing many small experiments with digital – from putting its audio guide online for free to releasing a “season” of videos of artists describing their favorite art at the Met called Met Artist Project.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. 37 Now the global leader in cloud computing, AWS provides governments with data storage space, the military with algorithmic power and other companies with logistics solutions and machine learning.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

And the podcasts became an extension of that, because I realized I wanted to do interviews, and it was a great way to do the interviews and have them in an audio form for people who are interested in audio, and then also I get them transcribed and put them on the blog. We are a 3.5 So we have a wide mandate.

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