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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. But can they also combat apathy? Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Mobile Platform Battle Royale. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. But can they also combat apathy?

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Guest Post: Beth Kanter's SXSWi Nonprofit Panel Roundup

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Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. But can they also combat apathy? Submitted by Jacob Colker.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: WITNESS

Nonprofit Tech for Good

YouTube is also a key part of our social media strategy, it is the platform we rely on for sharing our videos. Since September 2009, I have been responsible for maintaining WITNESS’ social media platforms (paid, full-time). This helps to amplify discussions and messaging. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how?

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Photos are the dominant form of data being shared over the Internet, mostly on Facebook and mostly from phones (68 percent). There are well over 5 billion mobile phone users worldwide, of a population of some 7.1

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Social Media: Not Just a Revolution, but a Voice for the Silenced

Care2

Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience. They created the social media platform, U.R.G.E.:

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