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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c) " This was 1988. There was no web.

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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

In celebration of the occasion of getting to meet this huge hero of mine, I’ve outlined five ways that companies, institutions, and nonprofits can harness technological innovations to advance financial inclusion and empower the world’s most vulnerable people: 1. Crowdfunding to unlock empathy and investment capital. 1,171,000,000.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Data is transparent because of social media, data visualization, and open data from governments – all helping us to usher a remarkable period in human history. Philanthropy needs to understand how to make best use of open data sets and increasingly disintermediated data that is hard to find. How do we weave it together?

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

Note on platform : During last week’s Twitter chat, not unlike previous chats, we dealt with some major issues around lag and load time. decentralized/open. This wrap up will highlight some of the insights and resources shared during the chat, but, if you’d rather, you can review the full transcript. real time, and 2.

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Reflections on a Weekend with Ze Frank and His Online Community

Museum 2.0

About 700 people participated over two days, including some who had traveled to Santa Cruz from London, Indonesia, and across the US. Ze had issued an invite to tens of thousands of people online, and we had no idea how many people would attend, and who they are. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. it doesn't have to be completely narrow, but you're going to get more of an audience if it's about a particular issue, rather than just everything. Then I'm interested in Fair Trade issues. Let's address this issue with a podcast."

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