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The New Miradi

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Miradi gives conservation planners cutting edge tools to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects. As conservationists progress through these steps, Miradi helps them define the scope of their project and design conceptual models and spatial maps of their sites.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions.

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Querying the Environment: A Smart Model for Pull Content

Museum 2.0

This project in Avesta, Sweden, in which visitors use special flashlights to explore a historic site and reveal interpretative content of interest, is an elegant example of how museums can innovative the label experience. The most familiar pull learning tool we use daily is Google. Which brings us back to Sweden.

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Three Do * Good Blogs

Have Fun - Do Good

21 contributing editors from all over the world post extensive articles about tools, models and ideas for building a better future. taken from a Salon.com article, that you've probably already heard about, but I hadn't, that Sweden has created a commission to find ways to end the country's use of oil by 2020. Find it Here.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 3: Energizing

Museum 2.0

But this traditional model is private, building relationships between individuals and the museum rather than individuals and the world. What tools do you offer for her to express her enthusiasm? You can check out Forrester's social profile tool for a rough sense of your visitors' predilections. Maybe a comment card or book.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

We’ll examine how to harness tools for nurturing positive outcomes and amplifying impact. It’s an opportunity to unwind, slow down, take stock of the past year, learn how to use some of the influencing, leadership and coping tools and create a personal development plan for the year ahead. Sweden / $400. Strategic. Technology.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The human rights team trains groups how to use their number one asset, information about human rights violations, as a strategic tool to advance their social justice mission. We’re helping the environmental movement become more effective through using Miradi to manage its conservation projects and to better steward environmental assets.