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I like shorts, especially when they are as well produced as this. And if you add light sabers for no reason, even better. This Ross Ching guy—the director—would probably make Clone Wars 12. Wait and see. [Ross Ching]
Let me share something special with you. This is Endhiran, a Bollywood action flick. It's like Terminator, The Matrix, and Transformers combined, but better.
If you're looking for volunteers, you're also looking for people who are active on social networks. It turns out that people who like social media also like to volunteer.
These are the latest findings according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/The-Social-Side-of-the-Internet.aspx.
by Erika Rydberg
When one imagines an Internet user, the image that appears may be that of a solitary individual staring at a computer screen at an unbeknownst hour. It's a lot like the lonely Internet user that Robert Putnam described in Bowling Alone. In the book, he suggested that Americans were steadily becoming less engaged in group activity and that we, as a society, were losing our sense of social capital; we were bowling alone.
Yet, with the advent of the social networking and the popularity of information sharing and interpersonal communication, this depiction and the idea of "bowling alone" seems irrelevant. A new survey from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, shapes a different view of the Internet user. It's one of highly social creatures both on and offline.
"Social capital is an important matter in a networked age, and operates in a different matter than in the tightly knit era of the past," says Lee Rainey, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
In the survey administered by Pew, respondents were asked about active participation in 27 different types of groups in addition to their interaction with the Internet. The groups ranged from formal groups such as church organizations and more informal do-it-yourself groups such as book clubs and gaming communities.
Pew found that 80 percent of Internet users participate in groups, as compared with 56 percent of non-Internet users.
Twitter users were the most social. 85 percent of them were involved in group activity offline, followed by 82 percent of social networking users. The results from the survey identify the use of social media and online activities as helpful in the process of disseminating information and engaging group members.
"The virtual world is no longer a separate world from our daily life and lots of Americans are involved in more kinds of groups," said Rainie. Interacting on social networking sites is part of staying informed; the survey found that 65 percent of social network users read group updates and messages on these sites.
Group participation is not the norm for everyone. Rainie pointed out that "25 percent of respondents did not belong to any groups and of that group one fifth mentioned lack of Internet access as part of the reason why they are not involved."
These are excellent suggestions for non profits to include in their tool kit. This is a partial clip, click through to check out the full descriptions and commentary.
Do you have any suggestions that could be added to this list? The objective is to find tools that are very cost effective or free that will greatly help non-profits. I think #amplify could be added to the list. A group Amplog would be a great way to share ideas and resources.
1. Mobify
Given the huge uptake in mobile web use, you know by now that if your site isn’t optimized for mobile devices, you are likely missing out on opportunities left and right to connect with your audiences.
But creating a well-designed mobile version of your site from “scratch” can cost you in expensive programming time.
2. Google Grants for Google AdWords
Google offers $10,000 per month free advertising to qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations serving the arts, education, health, science, technology, and volunteering.
The ads run through the Google AdWords pay-per-click advertising program and can be used to solicit donations, recruit volunteers, promote events, and more.
3. Animoto
Animoto has become a popular tool for magically creating professional looking videos with no budget, no camera, and little technical skill.
It couldn’t be easier to produce an Animoto video. You simply load images, text, select music, and wait about 10 minutes while Animoto whips up a video that looks like these.
4. Donor Tools
Donor Tools is one of many, many non-profit fundraising and outreach donor management systems. Why do I like it? It’s extremely affordable, newish but not beta, web-based, and offers simple functionality for those looking for just the basics in managing donations.
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Barsema is one of five winners of this year's Purpose Prize, honoring age 60-plus Americans for innovative efforts to solve society's most pressing problems. They will each receive $100,000, and another five honorees will get $50,000 apiece. Financed by the Atlantic Philanthropies and John Templeton Foundation, the award is sponsored by Civic Ventures, a San Francisco think tank on boomers, work and social purpose.
School officials say East Intermediate was named as the recipient of the 2010 United Nations NGO Positive Peace Award.
You ever want to watch an old, old tv show? Here's a pretty good webpage for that.
'He is one of those whose picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon,' one wrote in June
Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011.
Social-networking website now worth more than eBay, Yahoo and Time Warner, New York Times reports.
