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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The panelists included, Virginia Eubanks, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY and author of Automating Inequality ; Rashida Richardson, Director of Policy Research for the AI Now Institute ; and Di Luong, Research and Policy Organizer at Media Mobilizing Project. You can watch the keynote on YouTube.

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CountyHealthRankings.org Gives First County-by-County Snapshot of Health in Each State

Forum One

Forum One created all of the site's branding elements, developed the site's information architecture, designed its visual look, and built the site using Drupal, a leading open-source content management system. See Virginia's table.) Tags: Influence Press Releases Site Launches. For more information, visit www.forumone.com.

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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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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Does the incentive of monetary support influence how people allocate their altruistic desires to help others? In March of this year, The Virginia G. The value of volunteer labor and the factors influencing participation: Evidence for the United States from 2002 through 2005. Review of Income and Wealth, 54, 220-236.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. on Facebook.

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How We Can Inspire Remarkable Change for Good

Connection Cafe

The way in which organizations have historically used influencers in the past has changed. Influencers are no longer limited to key stakeholders like CEOs, they are now brand ambassadors who can speak to their peers in an organic way. Professor James Coan at the University of Virginia has studied the power of empathy.

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

We opened up Citizen Space in San Francisco in November of last year, of 2006. Since then, we've tried to really open source our practices and our processes and the things that make it work openly on a website and a wiki. The people of the space really do have a lot of influence and can add a lot of benefit.

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