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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S. In drafting the framework for open Internet policy, we must guard against discrimination and anti-competitive practices on all Internet platforms. Bad policy decisions should be reversed.

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How to do social media marketing during the pandemic

Socialbrite

Underscoring the importance of social media, people are turning to these platforms to keep themselves connected, informed and engaged. You can also use micro-influencer platforms like Fohr and Apexdrop to connect to influencers and bloggers and drive traffic to your social media channels. Perhaps host a weekly Zoom call or check-in.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Thus was born Craigslist, which soon expanded into a web-based platform where users could connect directly with each other at will to sell, trade, and donate goods, services, and gigs. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. The early promise of this emerging platform economy seemed fantastical.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I spent one day with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as they hosted an event for the Technology Partner Network (I’m one of a couple of hundred of tech advisors in the network). Kipp’s idea was that we could take this paper-based rape reporting system and build it on top of our Martus secure human rights software platform.

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