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In Times of Crisis, You See Nonprofits Helping, Solving, Rebuilding

Saleforce Nonprofit

Lori Freeman, General Manager of Salesforce for Nonprofits shared with the NetHope community the newest Salesforce innovation all centered around data: Unifying and protecting data: Salesforce’s partnership with AWS focuses on building open-source integrations to automate deployment and hydration of data lakes.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I was profiled on Linux.com. I “live the open source lifestyle.&# And why is this in “social issues&# and not “technology&# ? I come across a lot in my varied net wanderings, and people send me stuff, so it’s a nice way to talk about some of it, without having to go into too much detail.

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Facebook Ad Platform

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. One of the big beginning issues was that if a fan page was public, and it can have URLs, then that must be great for SEO , right? Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Be Helpful.

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Data Portability update

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. tools, they need to understand the implications of what they do, and demand that the tools use open standards. { These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. Be Helpful.

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets. I’m not so clear about how this helps users.

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What is private? What is public?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I realized that one of the most important things that we can do is educate the organizations we work with (as well as individuals) about privacy issues and data. I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. But that’s not the point of this post. When is data public?

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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