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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Twitter uses hashtags.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

We'll be raffling off an Apple iPad, solar cell phone chargers, a t-shirt that lights up when it detects a wi-fi signal (how convenient!) American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) in booth 39. Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes? Lots of prizes. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Aqubanc in booth 58. in booth 64.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

We'll be raffling off an Apple iPad, solar cell phone chargers, a t-shirt that lights up when it detects a wi-fi signal (how convenient!) American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) in booth 39. Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes? Lots of prizes. and a gaggle of books by nptech superstars. Aqubanc in booth 58. in booth 64.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

I’m going to start sipping my green tea, like you said. And I learned a lot about fundraising before the internet, when you just dialed for dollars and sent mailings and had a lot of house parties. . People are starting to use their phones for the main reason they were created, and that is to talk to people. .

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The Future of Mobiles for Nonprofits

NTEN

I could point to the Haiti disaster as the tipping point in cell phones -- for the increased engagement with donors, and more importantly, for the contributions of information from survivors. The Dartmouth Green. For the new generation, the cell phone is conversation. The phone was the conversation!

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Updates made by phones to twitter, are searched more easily than before -. Wendy Harman, Red Cross Wendy will share a story about how they used metrics to refine their social media strategy for their Online Disaster News Room Presentation Key Points. increase transparency about disaster response. set audience. affected people.

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