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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

NTEN

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. Avoid using marketing hype as a substitute for your own analysis. As you read it, perhaps you'll begin to spot the biases your team might suffer from. In the case of VolunteerMatch, we're not immune by a long shot.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0, and I want to talk about that hype, and talk about the possible pitfalls of jumping on the Web 2.0 What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0

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