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How to Set Up Bitcoin for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

In case you're not familiar, Bitcoin is the most well-known "cryptocurrency," a currency like dollars or euros, but one that only exists digitally. A wallet is like a bank account that exists only on a digital platform. Unlike a traditional currency, though, it's decentralized, so it doesn't go through a bank.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere. The Extraordinaries is smartphone software (iPhone, Blackberry, and more) that allows millions of people to perform brief micro-volunteer tasks on their smartphones in a few minutes of spare time.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Eric Rice writes about the digital divide in California, while Web2.0 You could hear crackberry addicts screaming from miles away.