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UK based nonprofit helped out Nigeria with an electronic tax collection system.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded $2.7 million to Lockheed Martin Corp. to develop military command and control systems. This system will help commanders on the field track other systems and strategize on the fly. This system will also monitor fighters and their communication and weapons.

Illinois company helps Hope Community Church with training in technology and social media networking as well as other various skills necessary for NPOs.

Comp TIA is a non-profit advocating IT in non-profit and advancing the global interests for professionals. They help out disadvantaged with acquiring skills to work in IT and are now taking initiative to help IT waste by making the field become greener.

With all these travesties continuing to occur in Japan there seems to be many ideas and techniques to help these disaster areas. This shows yet again the innovations of today's modern robots and their ability to help those in need when it may be unsafe for humans. This is a very interesting article as to how advancements in technology can continue to advance the efforts of governments and organizations to help victims of disasters.

The medical field can be very behind in some parts of technology. Smart phones have the ability to revolutionize patient - doctor relationships and help people to monitor their own health. It is predicted soon that 90% of U.S. physicians and they will be able to communicate to each other through a social network aimed for their collaboration. New health smart phone apps will only help spread more information with higher level of efficiency.

Technology is essential to marketing, as this report makes clear...

Technology is essential to marketing, as this report makes clear...

Google has a new "Google for Nonprofits" program that offers discounted and free tools, apps and other resources. They even have the opportunity to get grants for up to $10,000 a month in advertising through using Google Adwords. They have created online resouces like educational videos and case studies to help nonprofits.

UNICEF is playing with the idea of using QR Codes to encouraging people to donate items on a 1X2 (buy one, give one) basis while shopping at the store. It is a pretty neat way to utilize the technology, and encourage people to donate.

Yet another journalist's/expert's opinion on how to best use facebook for a non-profit, including the importance of goals

Gives good tips on how an organization should use facebook. Some of the good tips promote communicating to the fan-base as well as encourage fan-to-fan communication. One of the most important things about NPOs and Facebook is to have a purpose with your page. This article strongly condemns having a page "just to be on facebook" and says that having a strong purpose makes facebook that much more successful.

"It's important for any digitally-minded non-profit to be on Facebook because of the sheer number of active users. So, great - you set up a Facebook account for your organization. Now what?" Note:  "Eight of the world's top ten brand use the Buddy Media Platform (sponsor of "The Facebook Marketing Series") to power their social marketing on FB."

Facebook founders to put there money to some good and help with schools funding.

This article announces the entry of cloud connect toolbars. Google is using Google docs to get access to more information and are offering some organization in return. The expected benefits of adding the toolbar are explained.

This article shows how governmental agencies are using technology tools to help gather the taxes that people have failed to pay in the past. This technology tool analyzes the data that has been collected about an individual and uses that to compare the different ways of going about collecting the past due taxes. Using this analyzing tool allows the government to spend less resources trying to collect the taxes and also has proven to increase the amount of past taxes that are collected.