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Personal Health Data: It’s Amazing Potential and Privacy Perils

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is one of the first reports using “Personal Health Data” in aggregate, using data points around sleep tracking to look at a natural disaster. As Jacob Harold mused on Twitter, “In such a moment of something so powerful and scary as an earthquake, technology can only observe.”

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

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The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them. As Hersman says , "Sometimes there is just nothing more you can do than report what you see." Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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

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American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) in booth 39. Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Aqubanc in booth 58. in booth 64.

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

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American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) in booth 39. Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Aqubanc in booth 58. in booth 64.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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