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How to Recognize a Suspicious Email

Tech Soup

Look carefully at the email and ask yourself the following questions: Do you know or recognize the "from" address or contact's name? Does the message ask you to take action on something you didn't request, such as "click on this link to pick the new phone you requested"? Need a little inspiration?

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. Phones also provide a reliable contact method for people who have no permanent address. It also uses Twitter to “find, counsel, and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.”

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We often hear the term “digital native” used to describe young people who don’t remember a time when phones were attached to the wall, but just because kids have only ever known a technology-rich world doesn’t mean they know how to engage with and through technology responsibly. An 8-megapixel camera on your phone?

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

This means many children and teens who regularly had access to nutritious meals during the school year may be hungry or undernourished over the summer, even when there are free meals available in their communities. Your privacy and the recipient's privacy are protected when sharing information via Range. Learn More.

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The Shrinking Generational Digital Divide

NTEN

Personal computers, cell phones, digital assistants, and the Internet have fundamentally changed how we communicate. But with the Internet now accessible from public libraries, cyber cafés and cell phones, getting online is easier than ever for nearly anyone. Sami Hassanyeh, AARP. But to make these connections, people need access.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The individual or group’s contact person individually will have no right to the prize. The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing.

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What about those leaked reports from Facebook and Instagram?

Top Nonprofits

Like the phone companies, the gas companies, even the internet companies. So I do not let my daughter on Instagram, but that’s my own personal choice and do something that org, they are an organization dedicated to combating suicide and self-harm and addiction and all of these things in, in teens.