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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." Global Energy Observatory ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s See Thomas Friedman? s vision for GEO is

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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Mobile for Good: Trends to Watch at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

This week, the world is gearing up for mobile's biggest global tradeshow, Mobile World Congress (MWC). In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. trillion more in GDP (source: Deloitte). Security Alert.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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People of the Year: US

Have Fun - Do Good

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. --Lev Grossman, from, "Person of the Year: YOU", TIME.

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