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Shovel-ready Online Civic Projects #1: Global Development Commons

Forum One

These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake. Project #1 Global Development Commons. public goods

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Open Source philanthropy data big data' It originally appeared on NetSquared. Seeing Like a State in Africa: Data Needed.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Their mother might be in one of those photos.

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10 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Also, a quick search of “ website design trends 2020 ” will add an extra layer of creativity to your process and ensure that by the time of launch your website will include innovative and forward-thinking design elements. 10) Optimize your website for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). that your nonprofit uses.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

We also shine the light on the potential security problems of smart toys, predict the end of the digital divide, and discuss a health-related wearable that can't get here fast enough and some intriguing 10 year-old predictions that just happened to come true. Forty percent find charities through plain old web searches.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. Deborah Finn has written a SEO primer called " Search Engine Optimization for Nervous Nonprofit Novices " and she is seeking feedback from SEO mavens.

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