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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Windows Phone) is a point-of-care smartphone application that addresses child mortality rates by lack of detection and availability of treatment for malaria. Khan Academy (Windows Phone, iPad) is a nonprofit on a mission to change education. Political Engagement and Activism. This app was developed as a Coding4Fun Community Project.

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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

Tech Soup

SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders) is a New York City-based organization that provides services and advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender elders. One of the projects this organization is working on is called Connect 4 Life , a mobile phone program for LGBT homeless youth. Sage CyberCenters.

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Mobile websites vs. apps - what's right for you?

Connection Cafe

There is also some nice information in the article about app usage and how it varies by type of phone/operating system (OS). First, they will load regardless of which OS the phone is running on, whereas some apps aren't compatible with older versions of the OS. Author: Sally Heaven. 36% of U.S. American Humane Association.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While the speakers were talking, the avatars in Second Life were carrying on a lively debate in chat about the points raised, suggesting questions to be asked in the room in New York City, and passing along urls/resources related to the discussion at hand. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City.

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Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

Museum 2.0

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

I AM suggesting that we publish complete staff directories with phone numbers and email addresses on websites. How many times have you visited a museum site in search of a phone number or email address and woken up two hours later dizzy from the painful and ultimately unsuccessful phone system nightmare? It's very relational.

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. Oh the hours!!

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