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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

Seattle, Washington: Facilitating Great Board Meetings. Los Angeles, California: Data Visualization with Tableau Public and Power BI. Chicago, Illinois: Knowledge Mapping for Greater Social Good. Los Angeles, California: LGBTQ & Tech! Dublin, Ireland: Digital Street Mapping Workshop.

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

But for now local is still something I use a map and a tank of gas to determine the limits of. Our “job&# is to facilitate that action and make it easier for them to participate. Inspire, empower and facilitate to take action. Social media makes that much easier. — so it’s good to play to that advantage.

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Social Video Questions, Answered: Join TechSoup July 20

Tech Soup

cloud-based tools that facilitate group process around mapping, making. Hardy , Los Angeles, CA @eveslime and the @limelightprjct Sheila Hardy is an award-winning producer, writer and owner of Eve's Lime. Connection points like Google Hangouts allow your circle to share what they are. Collaboration. We will focus.

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Nomad Cafe: How to Start a Green Cafe

Have Fun - Do Good

We shared that distinction with big players like American Honda Motor, Frito-Lay, Lockheed Martin, and the Los Angeles Zoo. I have championed the recent Oakland Food Policy Assessment introduced by some amazing grad students at Cal, which lays out a very clear, thorough, and utterly achievable road map for food security in Oakland.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Such information is concealed by big tech cabals who rely on microwork sites to facilitate projects of a secret nature. 9 Only the latest strategy in the militarization of urban space, facial recognition has unleashed a police armageddon on poor neighbourhoods, most notably in the vast carceral cities of Los Angeles and Shanghai.

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next step is for these apps to add greater purpose by encouraging more meaningful checkins and offering corresponding badges and stamps, thus mapping the cause universe. The Green Map app is another that facilitates discovery and connects us to local green environments. No more paper and a much better experience.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”.

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