Immediately following the NTIA announcement that 1,400 of the 1,800 BTOP Round 1 applications were not selected, Frank Lamancusa sat down with ZeroDivide Chief Community Investment Officer Laura Efurd and Chief Strategy Officer Tim Wu to discuss implications of Round 1 and the upcoming Round 2 application process.
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Social Media Continues to Play Critical Role in Relief Efforts
On Twitter and You Tube, the recovery efforts following the tragic earthquake in Haiti continue to be the main subject of interest. Online communication sites, such as Twitter, have played an especially large role as they quickly filled with Haiti-related information and ways to offer aid. Social media became central to the fundraising effort that raised millions of dollars.
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Technology is a Key Factor in Haiti Disaster Relief Donations
In the 48 hours since a devastating earthquake ripped through Haiti, the American Red Cross has received over $35 million in donations - more than $5 million of which came through text messaging, setting a new record for the Red Cross for mobile technology-based giving.
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2010
Predictions abound as the year draws to a close and a new one begins. Reflecting back nearly a decade ago, the state of the Internet and technology was vastly different than it is today. Thanks to the work of thousands of collaborators over the final four decades of the 20th century, today's Internet is a continually expanding worldwide network of computer networks for the transport of myriad types of data.
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ZeroDivide Grantee CMC Featured in the news
By Brian Gallagher on 4 February 2010 - 2:09pm
ZeroDivide grantee the Center for Multicultural Cooperation (CMC), based in Fresno, recently garnered local television news coverage for its FresYes program. FresYes is a workforce development initiative that provides students from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods an opportunity to earn income as Youth Media Consultants
Social Media Benchmarks for Nonprofits
By margaret on 1 February 2010 - 5:31pm
In the rapidly evolving world of social media, nonprofits are scrambling to find meaningful metrics for their social network outreach.
We know social media has two core metrics - influence and engagement. If we want to know how we can engage our communities, we need to understand what to measure.
National Survey Confirms Exponential Growth of Online Media Consumption by Young Americans
By Robin Wu on 21 January 2010 - 3:57pm
The Kaiser Family Foundation just released findings from the third in a series of national surveys about young people's media use. The study found that young Americans, ages 8 to 18, spend more than seven and a half hours per day, except for the time in school, using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device. This is an hour more per day than what was reported in the last study, conducted in 2004, and
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