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W00t! HUGE Congrats to NTEN, recipients of a $1.1m grant from Google

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. &# The grant will support NTEN’s work to educate technology leaders about the evolving role of technology in nonprofit work, and beyond that, to produce research and training on cloud technologies and data management, visualization, and collaboration.&#. If you are not already a member, consider joining now.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

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I’ve always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: social tools + people = lives saved. Crisis data = people. Please bring them water.&#.

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MUST WATCH: The state of the internet and group-forming

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I pointed last week to the latest Pew Internet research study about internet users and groups which found that the users most engaged with social media are also the most engaged in groups. Clearly directly relevant to associations. Alex Howard talks about these issues from the Gov 2.0 He also digs into the issue of the digital divide.

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