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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Metro4All — Making All Metro Systems Accessible

Tech Soup

Subways and metro stations remain a problem. It's looking for people in American cities interested in helping to map every metro system and fix that problem. So far, Metro4All has apps for 14 cities in Russia and other countries in Europe. Meet the Russian social enterprise, Metro4All. What Is Metro4All?

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Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. But Botsman overlooks some of the tensions found in the collaborative economy. What Is the "Sharing Economy?" Social Good and the Sharing Economy.

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Nonprofit Social Media 101: Lessons from Indivisible

Everyaction

You should know what that protocol is and what the system is beforehand, so that you know can handle that breaking news and avoid any problems that can come with rapid response. When doing social media at the national level for a large organization, how do you collaborate with people working at the local level?