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More on Using Crowdsourced Data to Find Big Picture Patterns (Take 3)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Captain Lopez helps her team assess the quality, quantity and usefulness of these different streams, each of which plays a part of the picture of the situation. As a thought experiment, imagine this approach being used in the Japan tsunami. The helicopter survey is a more expensive, but more effective tool for getting the big picture.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, keep in mind that large nonprofits are spending tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars each year on Facebook Ads and they have it down to a science. For example, the Dolphin Project streams live daily updates from the Taiji dolphin hunts in Japan and NPR regularly streams live news updates.

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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

Tech Soup

At each event, we're helping to build and sustain a self-supporting community of practice for tech-minded nonprofit staffers. Naples, Florida: How to Reach More People via Video Live Streaming? Tokyo, Japan: #NPOxITは仕事になるのか? They're having a huge impact. In fact, last year we had almost 13,000 workshop RSVPs.