ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 19, 2016

of all households reported having high-speed internet access. In every age category, over 50% of households have high-speed internet access. Even in states where the amount of people with high-speed internet access is lower than the national average, at least 62.3 Internet-based fundraising is similar to most fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

AI and the Future of Humans: The Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center interviewed experts about their predictions about the impact of AI. She was also interviewed on the City Arts and Lectures podcast recently and well worth a listen. Will people be better off in 2030?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 27, 2011

We entered the wild, savage jungle of Internet Commentary. The best way to do that would be to make the problem disappear, right? Moral of the story: ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away and can even make it worse. McKinney , Project Specialist. ASU Lodestar Center. What happened, you ask? You couldn't be more wrong.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Backup and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Wednesday, April 3, Noon to 1 p.m. Join Sam Chenkin, Tech Impact's Product Manager, to learn about cloud computing and disaster recovery basics, and the different types of cloud storage and products designed to help you achieve your nonprofit's disaster recovery goals.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It doesn’t rely solely on the relatively few big data centers out there, but rather on the emerging Internet of Things in which processors are embedded into appliances, thermostats, cars, street lights, buildings, etc. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Here in the U.S.,

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They have workers and volunteers, sometimes literally, on the front lines to both provide immediate support, and to learn more about the problem they are trying to solve, and who they are solving it for. No one understands this better than nonprofits. This type of work often brings workers to areas of limited or no connectivity. DV: I agree.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. We need leverage points."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Jaeger explains that to be actionable, an idea must be concrete and address a problem or issue. We use mobile apps to capture memories, keep track of tasks, entertain ourselves, and communicate.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

How Big Is the Cloud Data Security Problem? In February 2011 Google inadvertently deleted 150,000 Gmail accounts due to an internal software problem. What servers and software it runs and what its arrangements are for disaster recovery. Cloud companies probably will go out of business as the industry develops.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

With cloud computing, you access your software applications over the Internet using a web browser. CrisisCamps are one example of how cloud computing lets us reimagine a problem and thus develop new solutions. Chances are you probably already do this with Yahoo Mail or Google Docs or Flickr or Salesforce or Twitter or Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Oh, I've had problems before, but only minor hardware failures and crashes because I have a duo-RAID hard drive. I always seem to have computer problems before important presentations (see here and here ). It looks like one of the ram sockets on the motherboard is fried. I don't need this to happen to me.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

" Ushahidi has since supported critical information gathering to provide a picture of human needs for many natural disasters, political violence, and human rights violations. As Hersman says , "Sometimes there is just nothing more you can do than report what you see." The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Keep in mind that every technology runs into problems and no cloud vendor can guarantee 100% availability for their services. Connectivity : If your Internet connection goes out, you lose access to your cloud services. As Sam said, "If you have a really bad Internet connection, the cloud is not for you." redundantly.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. “15% of the UK population hasn’t experienced the Internet even once.” Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. face and how we could help solve them.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

I was impressed by the number of developers who came out to support the idea that improved technology tools could help deliver aid more quickly, coordinate large numbers of people, allow for information transparency among aid groups, and potentially forecast humanitarian disasters to avoid huge loss of life. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 8, 2005

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. In this case.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Ever since the advent of the internet, the retail landscape has changed drastically. In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be a devastating hurricane that has left your community flooded or a wildfire that has forced your community to leave their homes behind, you’ll need to mobilize quickly to provide support. Wishlist drives.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 5, 2006

Each morning I grabbed my laptop and bopped off to the internet cafe with Doria to have a latte and make sure we weren't missing something in our email that might change our lives. But it booted up fine in Safe Mode, giving me confidence that the problem had to do with software, not hardware. I just got back from a week at the beach.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In the world of electronics recycling, mobile phones are a problem. TechSoup has long sent our old phones to the 911 Cell Phone Bank , a nonprofit that provides emergency cell phones and funds to meet the unexpected and urgent needs of law enforcement and disaster victims. What happened to them? Here’s what we found out.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2010

Find a charity with a proven track record of success in providing disaster relief and one that has worked in Haiti. But with disaster related giving, you should specify that you want your donation only used to respond to this particular crisis.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. Yes we have an accessible and attention span limited world thanks in great deal to the internet. Have people heard of 350.org org before?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We will use SKYPE out which is more rebust for monthly conference calls, scheduled for business hours in Pakistan so participants can use the Internet connection at their offices. This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2016

25% of the country’s population has proven to be unreachable through technology so far, and therefore is excluded from enjoying the benefits of initiatives like disaster relief funding delivered via cell phones. Data has helped find this problem and data will help be the solution. 24/7 philanthropy. Global is local, local is global.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Worse still, if you weren’t in “the cloud”, then your organization was exposed to all sorts of risks, problems and unnecessary costs? This is a problem for all industries, but especially for the nonprofit sector, because the private sector and government will typically pay more for the talent. The Internet?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. Check the internet and ask colleagues at other organizations for their recommendations. Why should I hire a nonprofit consulting firm? Share them with your board and with potential consultants.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

One, the key issue facing activists who wish for real social change is the mismatch between the scale of our problems (global) and the natural scale of our sociality (local). This is a profound problem and more, not less, social media is almost certainly a key element of any solution. I will make two main points in this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

That Twitter was the answer to all their programs' problems evermore. . `At 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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

He started out as a poet, started messing around on the internet with digital media, and launched into a series of highly unusual interactive projects. But when we talk about hiddenness, there's this problem. Jason Nelson is a lecturer in cyberstudies/digital art/digital creative writing at Griffith University in Queensland, AU.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

A group of individuals has more knowledge for solving a problem than any single individual. It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning. And the question was really, were the networks and the Internet bandwidth for each person’s home adequate enough to do the job? this has not deterred all the bad people on the internet.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

This may cause problems with donors in non-US countries. Tags: Online Giving , Privacy & Security Similiar Articles PCI Compliance Webinar Support Disaster Relief in Haiti Blackbaud NetCommunity 6.15 – Release Preview 5 Myths about Online Giving Blackbaud NetCommunity v5.5 This can reduce certain types of credit card fraud.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

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. . The power goes out, you have some sort of disaster, or you just have things that are changing and you want to keep track of, “Quickly, what do we do to get into a change?”

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Neon CRM

JULY 14, 2023

For example, say someone wanted to find information on how to donate blood following a natural disaster. That’s an organization that has been active for almost 150 years, and in that time they have become one of the world’s foremost authorities on natural disaster response and blood donations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 25, 2010

This latter category included such great projects as Tech Soup Global, which distributes donated Microsoft products at a deep, deep discount (a service we’ve used at Benetech for years) as well as support for the efforts of NetHope in disaster relief.

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