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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. 5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. Effective communication â??

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He is also interested in approaches network learning and highlights knowledge management for development. (He Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. " I have heard of interesting examples using mobile phones getting RSS feeds from blogs.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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A Few Reflections from SXSW Crowdsourcing Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." We were also very lucky that Claire Sale volunteered to be our Twitter advocate who monitored the Twitter stream and verbalized important points and insights. .

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Most nonprofits have not yet embraced Twitter’s new Vine App , thus they may not have an understanding of how to record and broadcast the world (and social good) in six second bites. Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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