What the Tech?

What the Tech?: Yesterday, at Bisnow's Association Tech Summit, CTOs and CIOs shared their thoughts on location-based services, evolving IT jobs, innovation, and more.

How to create a nonprofit in Silicon Valley - Ideas@Innovations - The Washington Post

How to create a nonprofit in Silicon Valley - Ideas@Innovations - The Washington Post: Perhaps Ram, also known as “Pram,” does have something up his sleeve. In an area dedicated to creating some of the nation’s most highly valued companies, Ram, a former executive at Yahoo! and Google, has created something relatively few others have pursued — a technology nonprofit in Silicon Valley.

Newark Schools Start to See Impact of 'Facebook Money' - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Newark Schools Start to See Impact of 'Facebook Money' - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Newark Schools Start to See Impact of ‘Facebook Money’

September 27, 2011, 9:46 am

After a year in which the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100-million grant to Newark, N.J.’s public schools often generated conflict and controversy, the city is seeing concrete results from the windfall, The Star-Ledger writes in an assessment marking the first anniversary of the donation.

Facebook Updates Could Give Nonprofits Better Visibility - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Facebook Updates Could Give Nonprofits Better Visibility - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: “The challenge is that high-value actions like donating and sharing video content ends up being drowned out by a large volume off really lightweight games,” says Mr. Mahan.

Facebook hopes to reduce the problem by using formulas to decide what appears on a person’s timeline, grouping similar activities into “reports” while relegating less important but higher-frequency items to a separate feed.

This is expected to help nonprofits stand out more. Mr. Mahan says that when someone donates to a charity through Causes, he or she can make that action prominent for a long time.

CharityVillage� Research: An Insider's Guide to Social Media Resources for New Nonprofit Professionals

CharityVillage� Research: An Insider's Guide to Social Media Resources for New Nonprofit Professionals: Are you a newbie when it comes to social media for social good? Hang in there — technically you can be considered a veteran once you’ve been on Twitter longer than eight months!

Whether you’ve just transitioned to a nonprofit sector job from the corporate world, or you’ve recently been handed "social media things" as yet another item on your plate at work, you may find yourself exposed to a lot of broad advice that doesn’t target your needs.

Let’s skip the usual suspects like Mashable or TechCrunch, and get straight to the specialized stuff. Here’s an insider’s perspective on the resources that can help you do your new job better, faster — with more awesomeness!