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Member Round Up: Brain science in fundraising, website tips, and Do Good Data 2013!

NTEN

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to!

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Using Social Media Internationally: How Not To Get Lost in Translation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by John K. Orkut , for example, is still popular in Brazil, while Renren and Qzone dominate the Chinese market (where Twitter and Facebook are banned). Note from Beth: Social networks allow to connect with people from outside of our community and it is easy to have your conversation get lost in translation.

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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here are 50 from the Skoll World Forum, Oxford 2006 - a photoset on Flickr. Rodrigo Baggio (of CDI in Brazil) and I are trying to find more time together since we're both in the IT space: we know there's a joint project here somewhere. One of the major themes of working with the Skoll Foundation is the focus on stories.

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About five years ago, Brazil violated American intellectual property agreements by producing an AIDS drug for a fraction of the cost of the American company who developed it. I've studied intellectual property law extensively, but only in an academic context; I am not a practicing lawyer. The higher your price, the higher your profit.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Image 2: Anonymous (Jacob Davis, Creative Commons on Flickr ). There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and Internet growth continues to be brisk, especially in developing countries.

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