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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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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.” How long will this data be stored?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

" Ushahidi has since supported critical information gathering to provide a picture of human needs for many natural disasters, political violence, and human rights violations. Ushahidi entered our legendary third NetSquared Mashup Challenge in Santa Clara, California in May 2008. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation.

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

NTEN

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Call2Action's Sparkâ„¢ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Come play with some cool new tech tools at the Microsoft booth (free drink tickets)! We can help you with that. Spinx, Inc.

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

NTEN

and if you want to talk about how to display stuff on maps and create effective Google Map mashups, we can do that too! Call2Action's Sparkâ„¢ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. Come play with some cool new tech tools at the Microsoft booth (free drink tickets)! We can help you with that. Spinx, Inc.

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