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Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Resources

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Remote Access Proves Critical to New Zealand NGO After Earthquake. CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs. Used Laptops Needed for Earthquake Victims in Haiti: You Can Help! Image: life preserver, dibytes. Lessons From Haiti: Uses of New Media in Disaster Recovery Efforts.

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The Pros/Cons of Social Web for NGOs from Kabissa

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

t fall into the trap of being in a life threatening situation without critical information that is only available on Yahoo and you are 200 miles from the nearest cybercafe. But that isn't the case for an ngo working a developing country or extremely rural area. Social Media, and Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. Here’s what it all looked like to me.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. You've got to love their logo. Paul Lamb might.

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit.

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