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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Windows Phone) is a point-of-care smartphone application that addresses child mortality rates by lack of detection and availability of treatment for malaria. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ). Additional Resources.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

Citrix cites Gartner Device Shipment Forecasts that find that the business PC market will grow at a rate of about 10% per year for the next few years. ” IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate.

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What is the connection between Google Analytics and NYC Taxi Cabs?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. Key Report #6: Site Bounce Rate The Bounce Rate report reveals the number of visitors who stayed just a few seconds. In short, your bounce rate is your failure rate. you won't get it unless you were a music conservatory student like me. What does the IT department do? -

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

At the rate memory capacity of devices are increasing, in a couple of years we will have an iPhone which would hold 256GB of data. An iPhone app called Memento compiles the data from your various disparate personal information repositories such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, and brings them back into a diary format, of all things.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. In case your curious, the response rate was 20% and most notably, the research was done, fast, with results given that same day. *.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

After one year, that’s probably why if you’re looking at your attrition rates, it used to be like 35% or 40% but now it’s like 50% to 60%. And then look at first-rate performance and impact. And then once in a while, we put together a Flickr album, and we send it to them with music behind it and a thank-you.

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