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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. A mobile app that allows you easily conduct mobile searches by simply speaking into your phone using their new “Speak Now&# technology.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

They provide you with viewable, interactive, and mostly hands-free Internet just above your right eye. Google Glass is by far the most famous of them and is a set of cyborg looking eyeglasses (now in five colors) that like many wearable devices, works in cooperation with an Android phone or iPhone. You can do Google searches by voice.

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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. . Voice remains the killer app.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Sure, the average price of a computer has been falling for years, but that doesn't take into account the recurring cost of Internet access. Cell phones and wireless technology mean rural areas don't need expensive landlines. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? But do you know this? Do you account for it?

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. It is a must download!

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." I AM suggesting that we publish complete staff directories with phone numbers and email addresses on websites. And then there's the value of primary voices for interestingness. Be personal.