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MobileActive Strategy Guide Now Available for Download

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

register people to vote, encourage involvement in elections, raise money for. communicate and are far more pervasive than the Internet. communicate and are far more pervasive than the Internet. a number of popular uprisings in the Ukraine and South Korea, to name just a. participation in civil society.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Compounding the normal difficulties of raising capital, platform cooperatives face additional problem of larger start-up costs.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We travel because we need to raise money, and we won’t get it unless we get in front of the donors. Seoul, South Korea After an almost restful whirlwind of meetings in California, it was off to Seoul for the Eighth Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy. We travel because there is no substitute for human interaction.

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