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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap helps Nepal earthquake response | Opensource.com

AFP Blog

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap helps Nepal earthquake response | Opensource.com : " One interesting effort has been from the crowdsourced mapping community, especially on OpenStreetMap.org, a free and open web map of the world that anyone can edit (think the Wikipedia of maps.)

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Increase Your Organization’s Credibility Online

Achieve

Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? These new domains are only available to genuine NGOs and are a direct result of efforts by the NGO community. Think about the last time you pulled up your search engine of choice. When you typed in your query and hit “search,” how did you decide which entry to choose? In other words, your.ngo/.ong

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. It has Web 2.0

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6 Technology Concepts Nonprofits Need to Understand in 2018

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Wikipedia. Cryptocurrencies to Watch: Gift Coin , Mission Coin , NGO Coin , Wishcoin. – Wikipedia. The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report. English, français, português y español, the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report is based on the survey results of 5,352 NGOs from 164 countries.

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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Naples, Florida: Telling Your Story: Using Video as a Medium for Spreading Your Message. Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Portland, Oregon: PDXTech4Good Summer Social. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Friday, July 10, 2015.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. They are calling on Americans nationwide to gather and hold silent, candlelight vigils to mourn those lost, reminiscent of the vigils after 9/11.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

The project also works closely with volunteer translators at Wikipedia’s translatewiki.net. Finally, we offer our sincere congratulations to AbilityNet , the most excellent UK based accessibility charity, for winning the Digital Leaders 100 Award for 2014 in the NGO category. NPTech Organization of the Month.

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