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How Nonprofits Can Steward Corporate Donors on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because of the ingenuity of GFN’s corporate donors, a Colombian hunger-relief organization – Banco de Alimentos Bogotá, a member of the national food bank network system, Asocación de Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia – was able to distribute a large quantity of high-value groceries.

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Colombia is the 2nd Happiest Place for the Planet

Have Fun - Do Good

According to Ode Magazine , The Happy Planet Index , a project of the New Economics Foundation , ranks Colombia as the 2nd happiest place for the planet. Colombia 3. I'm not sure if everyone in Colombia would agree with this index, but it is nice to see a positive portrayal of Colombia for once. Costa Rica 4. Dominica 5.

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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

Catalina Escobar , executive director of MAKAIA in Colombia. Cecily Walker , systems librarian at the Vancouver BC Public Library. Nonprofit Technology Leadership. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross from NTEN. Karen Graham and Laura Quinn from Idealware. International NGO Leadership. Law and Advocacy. Religion Tech.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I show people how to use ancillary services, including an RSS feed reader and social bookmarking system to find and store content that may end up on their blog. I show people how to use a WYSIWYG editor, and how to learn HTML troubleshooting by flipping between those two editing modes.

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Wikileaks War Data Reveal Underreporting of Iraqi Civilian Casualties

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A possible solution to overcome the bias of single lists is to use a statistical method known as multiple systems estimation ( MSE ), which can provide estimates for those cases that weren’t recorded in any list. This estimate assumes that the collecting patterns of IBC and SIGACTS were independent of each other, which is unlikely.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. Their system recovers around 75 percent of e-waste. North America. Latin America.