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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. My experience with the international publishers was such that I expected there would be a way to work through this issue.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Chris Hughes.

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Your Top 10 Content Strategy Questions (Finally!) Answered

NTEN

Nearly all of the web communication challenges I’ve encountered with the groups I’ve worked with stem from basic content planning and governance issues. Truth is, content is messy, and the politics, governance issues, and discussions around it can be complicated and time-consuming. Your organizational content should be intentional.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing). It allows charities to get to your applications and files from virtually anywhere there is Internet on many kinds of devices - PCs, Macs, and mobile devices of various kinds. MyDigitalBridge.

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What is Jumo? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a.

sgEngage

GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

PG: I think that the one that comes to mind first is a wonderful picture of women in Kenya who are growing corn. I read hundreds of grantee profiles, and tried to balance the book according to the issues and the geographies that I wanted. And because she is wise, and understood why I needed that kind of latitude, she agreed to that.