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Great reads from around the web on August 24th

Amy Sample Ward

It has some terrific questions to think about including: What behavior are we wanting to change? And rather than pay people to go get information about those places, Google has smartly been using a service called Map Maker, which lets locals and people knowledgeable about the area edit it themselves. What problem can we help solve?

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

We need to utilize these tools, to the best of our abilities, to engage and inform the public, because no matter how much federal, state and local officials do, we will only be successful if the public is brought in as part of the team." Frequently, they are simply bystanders.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. Are you hiring locally? Are you using local suppliers?

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. An excellent question posed by Beth Dunn of Small Dots. see for example the post about blogging policy ).

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local.