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Going Virtual – An Alternative Volunteer Event Guide

Connection Cafe

Often virtual events don’t elicit the same emotional connection as when a team come s together for in-person service. H osting a virtual or local day of service? virtual program connecting volunteers to organizations worldwide. . offers virtual volunteers opportunities to help with two main projects , ?

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. Dipity :: dipity.com. oneforty :: oneforty.com.

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What’s Missing from Your Ecosystem?

NetWits

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An If you bring the ecosystem mindset in you’ll start thinking about things like: Working with local hotels to accommodate those traveling from out of town. What’s an Ecosystem?

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. They eventually became hugely successful NetSquared Locals in several countries. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Google Maps. Podcasting.

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The Future of Cloud Computing: 5 Startups to Watch from BoxWorks

Tech Soup

Capriza has developed what they call a virtualization-based approach that allows someone to make an internal organization mobile app for a department — in as little as a week. Other companies in this space that will liberate us from our local area networks are vArmour and Embrane. Theirs are called Zapps.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! " (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Citizen journalists have repeatedly emerged as critical in crisis reporting and several citizen journalist platforms have emerged to harness their potential to report hyper-local news. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.