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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Dipity :: dipity.com. It is a must download!

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GIft Economies at MPS09

Amy Sample Ward

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. business model that supports the gifts. Tags: case studies maps free gift economy health mps09 patientopinion. Increasing return systems are: digital. loosely coupled. intrinsically motivated. network, horizontal. variable, uncontrolled. PledgeBank.

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The Future of Cloud Computing: 5 Startups to Watch from BoxWorks

Tech Soup

Capriza Zapps can also connect to things like barcode scanners, Google Maps, and other outside devices and services. Gainsight.com — is a kind of scary business intelligence service that assembles an instant profile of a customer or client on demand. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias.

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Demographics Are Destiny: How and Why to Diversify Your Staff Now!

NTEN

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. If you get nothing else from this post, please repeat after me: diversity is a tool for helping you achieve your business objectives. Map your network. This is really important.

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Getting Rich off the Gift Economy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It might seem very odd to look to a long-dead Russian anarchist for business advice. s because one of the most interesting questions in business has become how much work people will do for free. He also drew the first good topographic maps of Siberia and wrote a memoir of his revolutionary days that has become a minor classic.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

It also can map turn-by-turn directions for you. Their disruptive business model is make a vast improvement on preventative healthcare by having patients use wearable biometric devices like the activity tracker Fitbit. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. You can also take a picture by winking your right eye.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms. If you are a journalist, analyst or academic in the business of understanding social media initiatives, you’ll find the 4Cs Framework really useful.