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A Consumer's Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools from Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

View MacBookPro Travelogue in a larger map This map show the route that a new MacBook Pro made from a factory in China to Arizona. The report includes a summary of design principles, some common visual formats, as well as a review and comparison of free/low cost tools. Colleague Alan Levine customized a google map.

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Mobile for Good: iOS Threats, Creepy Cookies, and Some Good News

Tech Soup

We've got malware, invasive tracking cookies, and a report on not-so-secure messaging apps — not exactly good things. WireLurker was only isolated to users in China. Sure, it might sound like some sort of extraordinarily tasty treat, but it's actually an invasive tracking program. WireLurker/Masque Attack.

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Mobile for Good: iOS Threats, Creepy Cookies, and Some Good News

Tech Soup

We've got malware, invasive tracking cookies, and a report on not-so-secure messaging apps — not exactly good things. WireLurker was only isolated to users in China. Sure, it might sound like some sort of extraordinarily tasty treat, but it's actually an invasive tracking program. WireLurker/Masque Attack.

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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 knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4 As part of a.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

We recently saw this in the Google/China case where Chinese crackers (bad hackers) broke into activist Gmail accounts. There are reports all over the web that long-term plans for inside jobs maybe on the rise. Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. Am I hiring the right people?