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Technology has been dramatically improving relief efforts in places like Haiti. For example, "crowd sourcing" can be used to get information on any medical emergencies and to track trapped victims and then it can be used to create an online map that can be used by relief workers. Volunteers have been using GPS on their phones to help them through unfamiliar areas.

Here is another blog I found linked to technology and NPOs.

This website works with nonprofits to implement technology solutions for them based on cloud technology.

The Microsoft Unlimited Potential Blog discusses important themes from from the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. It will be interesting to look back on this later and see just how much things have changed.

This article describes the advances that public schools have made in technology in the classroom, and also charts who has access and who does not. For example, how many computers per student are available in one school may vary considerably to a similar school in a poorer district.

Finding grants for nonprofits to increase and expand on technology could have never been easier

I know they've held similar events in Lansing and Ann Arbor (not sure about Grand Rapids). I've heard mixed longer term results from the work: some of it sticks, some doesn't. Would be interesting to do a "one-year later" follow up on these.

Only 16% of nonprofits expect to be ready for mobile devices in 2011 so there is tremendous opportunity in 84% of nonprofits. Mobile web use increased 230% from 2008 to 2009 which indicates that many more people are impressed with mobile computing devices and it is here to stay for a while. Websites without mobile connectivity are essentially going to be out-of-date now.

This is supplementary to our first reading assignment which outlines where we are are and where we are going in nonprofit technology

This website reports on the University of Michigan's efforts to use information technology to completely revamp it's systems, and change how they do things at their hospital.

I choose to bookmark this article because The online procurement (e-procurement) has been identified as the most important element of e-business operational excellence for large corporations' (Barua et al., 2001). An e-procurement technology is defined as any technology designed to facilitate the acquisition of goods by a commercial or a government organization over the Internet

Being mobile is the new movement for 2011 in NPOS