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Blockchain for Impact: Blockchain Revolution Global Event Wrap-Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Everledger process is also being used for things like recovering rare earth minerals (cobalt, lithium) from batteries, in the sustainability space. She is the CEO and principal of the social enterprise consultancy, Good Plus Tech , with a focus on leveraging emerging technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence.

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

I hope you'll pardon me if I start with a green tech thing. She said that it generates more electricity at a lower cost than lead-acid and lithium ion batteries. I thought it might be fun to recount a perfectly random cross-section of folks who came by chat at the TechSoup booth on a Tuesday at the SOCAP event. SeaWave Battery.

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Mobile, Voice-Operated Everything, and Security, Oh My! Top Nonprofit Tech for 2016

Tech Soup

Lithium ion battery failures were big again this past year. Lithium ion batteries will continue to power our mobile devices — and continue to catch fire now and then, but not that often. We can talk to our cars with voice command systems like the Ford SYNC. He is an unsung hero of nonprofit tech no longer.

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