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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

People simply choose a country of interest (such as China or Thailand) and an area of interest (such as education or the environment) and find a list of vetted opportunities to which they can donate money or give their time. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty. It isn’t perfect.

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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss

NTEN

KnowledgeTree excites me because it's an open, LAMP system that I'll be able to easily integrate with custom development here, such as our case information system and a recruiting frontend that we're developing for the web site. There seems to be a unique human desire to drive to the absurd when it comes to cataloging.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

Mozilla’s Firefox , the nonprofit driven free and open source web browser; Creative Commons , the project set up to provide a straightforward licensing framework for online creators. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China.

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA bill

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. starting to act more like China than the home of the free. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Wonderful stuff. government or even (heavens!) Let’s not do this as a country.

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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

shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access.

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China. Valued open-source software that is cheap, flexible, easy and multi-featured. Why it works: conversation, authentic, story, translates into action -- how do I let go and let my supporters take hole of my messaging.