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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To see if your first choice of domains is still available or to purchase the domains and have them forward to your.ORG website(s), search enset.ngo and enter coupon code: TECH4Good at checkout to receive the 50% discount. Mission: To promote the right to education and to preserve the environment and cultural heritage of Brazil.

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WiserEarth.org Goes Multi-lingual: Guest Post by Peggy Duvette, WiserEarth

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This effort was realized thanks to more than 10 months of work by a team of 43 volunteer translators based in Brazil, France, Mexico and the US. WiserEarth offers a free and ad-free network to a vibrant member base of 37,000+ people from 231 countries, regions and territories.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. We even convinced schema.org—the standards setting body for the big search engines—to adopt a standard to make it easier to discover accessible materials online.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whether it is through a search engine like Google or Baidu , a hashtag via social media, or a tag to use in a You Tube video then it is making your work more visible to your target market. Orkut , for example, is still popular in Brazil, while Renren and Qzone dominate the Chinese market (where Twitter and Facebook are banned).

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She quickly became a national figure with regular appearances on talk shows to discuss the problems with public education in Brazil, despite threats from teachers, administrators, and even fellow students. Optimize your search results (they do their Internet research). Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA.

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A NetSquared Happy Holidays

Tech Soup

See if there's a group close to you by searching our map. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Evento De Design De Aplicativos Para Celular. GroundWork group in Columbus, Ohio. NetSquared Daytona Beach in Daytona Beach, Florida. Tech4Good Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Don't have a NetSquared group near you? Event Reports.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

But, we're thinking about equity-like vehicles that pass the nonprofit legal requirements and yet provide something for social investors in search of a financial return. At the moment, I'm en route to Brazil for the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit. That's pretty interesting.

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