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Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

As a capacity-building organization for the global nonprofit and social benefit sector, we at TechSoup are very conscious of the need to understand and work within different cultural contexts for philanthropy. The legacy of this situation "poisoned the whole notion of volunteering in Russia for many years.".

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World Map of Social Media

NCE Social Media

I really enjoy their post because it shows you the gradual change in social networks in different parts of the world. Only three years ago you can see that there are many different social networks dominating in different countries. As social networks have matured and the weaker networks have faded away, you can see what is left.

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Great reads from around the web on June 13th

Amy Sample Ward

Though the social networking behemoth continues creeping toward 700 million global users, six million Americans quit the site in the month of May. Norway, and Russia, while most of its gains came in countries in the developing world, including Mexico and India." That's the first time Facebook has lost U.S.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. We do it in a number of ways.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China. It's the largest country in South America and it has the fastest growing economy in the region.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

• Social media and crowdsourcing • Portable Networks. Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), now being run by my former colleague and all-around superwoman, Amy Sample Ward, recently came out with a report called Nonprofit Technology Assistance Providers Sector Reach Report.

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