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NetSquared: In the Beginning

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Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." Image 2: The NetSquared site 1.0 ( cambodia4kidsorg ).

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

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Some of those images were released on sites like Reddit, Imgur, and 4chan in an attempt to sell them for bitcoin , the virtual currency, and then shared far and wide. Many people aren't even aware that the Find My iPhone feature on iPhones and iPads is regularly syncing your data and your location with the cloud.

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Katrina IT Musings

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She did a lot of work on the hurricane aftermath (she's an expert on hazardous waste, and a gazillion other things). The two places I looked for mechanisms are the (1) United Nations APELL program (Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies on a Local Level) and (2) the U.S. I thought her comments would be worth posting.

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