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TechCamp: Empowering Women Through Technology

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The participants work together in small groups, ask questions and discuss problems, and work together to find solutions and initiate joint projects. The event was organized by Appleseeds Academy , an Israeli NGO that works to reduce social gaps in Israel through the use of tech tools and the development of life skills.

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And the Twitterville Book Winners Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's some of the schwag and a copy of Shel Israels's Twitterville that I purchased at last night's #tbash , the launch party for the book. Shel Israel donated three books. She will read the book, incorporate some ideas strategies and then do a book giveaway in their blog asking the same question!

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Nonprofits and the Age of Automation: AI, Machine Learning, Bots Link Roundup

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This Foundation Center blog post by Social Impact Exchange is based on a global scan highlighting how data and algorithms are being used in different ways for social good, emerging challenges in the field, and how philanthropy can be and is engaged in this work. Are Small Charities Being Left Out?

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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

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She asked the big question : Is all this making us smarter philanthropists (and organizers and leaders)? There were also presentations about Global Giving and Causecast. She also mentioned that the Case Foundation will be doing the giving challenge for a second time , so stay tuned. Folks like Brian Reich are skeptical.

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

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The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. A big question in this workshop is how can these program incorporate social media effectively?

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond.

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Mom in the Movement: Lisa Russ of the Movement Strategy Center

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He was born two months before Katrina, which sort of crystallized for a lot of people fears about global warming, and also fears about the inadequacies of our government and our systems to respond to needs. It's about Israel and Lebanon and I was like, "I'll definitely do that, I'll definitely do that."