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Attention Data Nerds: The Future is Now: Mobile Strategies for Social Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the age of mobile apps and hackathons, why is support for mobile strategies and projects lagging in the social sector? My favorite example of how mobile technology is literally putting power in the hands, pockets and purses of people is Fresno BusTracker. How can we more effectively strengthen these efforts?

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

And Fresno in the Central Valley--a city of 500,000, hundreds of miles from the closest science center. Where it didn''t work, no local support stepped up. So we tend to have three legs of support: municipal, grants/donations, and fee for service (usually with the school district). That taught us a lot.

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