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Cool Apps Roundup: Green Apps

Tech Soup

This inaugural post will cover a variety of green or environmental apps that are already out there. In my companion blog post on Why Apps Are Green , I talked about how apps permit the use of lighter IT infrastructure like mobile phones to accomplish things we previously used to do just on PCs. searches for green businesses near you.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Feed people? Map out as much as you can with as many details as possible. Create a fundraising plan to bring in the money you need, mapping out all your fundraising activities for the year. Use a tool like Buffer to schedule posts and keep your feeds fresh. Everyone starts a nonprofit to make a difference.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

The green, yellow, and red colors allow consumers to immediately view a product's level of concern in each of the categories. candidate at University of Pittsburgh, demonstrated FracTracker , an app that maps impacts of oil and gas extraction sites through crowdsourcing. Both apps are free and downloadable for iOS and Android.

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ROI (Results on Insights): Nonprofit Examples of How Listening Returns Value

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 This drove traffic.

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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island. The part that I found most amazing was the the interface design of a VR space inside of Second Life that integrates google maps, RSS, and Second Life.