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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. Fortunately, my colleague, Aspen Baker, was attending.

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Online Strategies for Open-Government / Ideas from the Obama Team

Forum One

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. A tall order. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. city issues and indicators.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

ASU Lodestar Center

I am also interested in the intersection of the government and the nonprofit sectors, which includes cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit provision of public services, etc. I worked for the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University, and I got my doctoral degree from the University of Southern California.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. Work with schools, universities, and other educational institutions to provide opportunities for BIPOC students to learn, grow, and develop their potential.

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Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input

Forum One

I was invited to present last week at the University of Maryland's Human Computer Interaction Lab's workshop on Government and Social Media. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. Here is a nice summary of the event.

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Fighting for Civic Transparency with Technology in the Western Balkans

Tech Soup

When there's no transparency and accountability in government, citizens feel powerless and deceived by the politicians that represent them. The project is designed to be available to citizens 24 hours a day and aims to increase the government's communication efficiency. How can people fight back? Through technology!

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. Perhaps privacy is dead.

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