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Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Resources

Tech Soup

CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs. Update from CDI Chile's Mobile Telecentre and How You Can Help. Lessons From Haiti: Uses of New Media in Disaster Recovery Efforts. Remote Access Proves Critical to New Zealand NGO After Earthquake. The Extraordinaries and Ushahidi Using Technology to Help in Haiti.

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Update from CDI Mobile Telecentre and How You Can Help

Tech Soup

Earlier this week , we told you about TechSoup partner CDI Chile 's plan to restore connectivity to Chilean NGOs. The CDI Mobile Telecentre is now on the road, connecting individuals to loved ones and connecting NGOs to resources helping them get back on their feet.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Horin noted that TechSoup Global did not have a partner in Haiti, but they did in Chile. Lisa Brummel, SVP, Human Resources, Microsoft; Tom Moran, United Way Loaned Executive; Rajesh Munshi; Xiang Li, Givology; Adnan Mahmud, Jolkona Foundation. Microsoft has the culture and resources to support and encourage these social ventures.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

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What if we stopped thinking of the public as a liability and started empowering them to be valuable resources who can increase efficiency and make a real impact? . What if we could route the 9-1-1 type requests to the appropriate responders? The enormous potential of social media is to leverage this fact to turn bystanders into lifesavers.

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#GivingTuesday: How Sharing Best Practices Is Building A Global Philanthropic Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are local leaders in Australia, Canada, Latin America, Mexico Chile, and Singapore organizing on the ground to expand the reach and spirit of generosity. But, you can see how the movement is taking off because there are many user-generated learning resources.

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25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 | Nonprofit.

sgEngage

Earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and New Zealand along with floods and landslides in other parts of the world drove donors to give online. The makeup of this year’s list reinforces some of the findings in Blackbaud’s 2010 Online Giving Report. International organizations raised a tremendous amount online in 2010. All Rights Reserved

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

Japan has a structured system based on their Law for the Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances and their Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics.