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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Thus was born Craigslist, which soon expanded into a web-based platform where users could connect directly with each other at will to sell, trade, and donate goods, services, and gigs. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. The early promise of this emerging platform economy seemed fantastical.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

Note: the speakers today are being introduced and interviewed by journalist and emcee Nadira Hira , on Twitter at @nadirahira. Millennials like instant gratification (in this case a trip to south korea to meet the refugees your funds rescued). Millennial Giving. Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies. 1) Create a space.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. Kipp’s idea was that we could take this paper-based rape reporting system and build it on top of our Martus secure human rights software platform. Met with a big NYC disability services provider about a possible Bookshare partnership. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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