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Reports expenditures of the $787 billion dollars of the Recovery Act funds. Citizens can use to identify fraud, waste, and abuse of those funds.  Zip code map to find how funds being used in your area. Social Media feeds of all types.

The head of California's state office of technology sees social media as a "force multiplier" and is aggressively expanding the state's mobile presence this year, aiming to double the number of mobile apps offered in 2011. Adrian Farley, the acting director and chief technology officer of OTech, told OhMyGov.com in an exclusive interview that the state of California, one of the earliest adopters of social media in government, had been very fortunate in experiencing almost no cultural pushback in attempts to integrate social media into official public communications. 

A website dedicated to assisting nonprofits and individuals with a cause in fundraising, creating websites, and gaining volunteers.

This website lets you create videos with different characters, voices, backgrounds,and your own scripts. Any company, person, or nonprofit can make them. These videos are useful to get information out quickly, and can add humor to information that might not normally gain attention

A new, small organization giving out $1000 grants to awesome ideas. The press coverage of it online is bound to help it grow and increase the amount of application requestions. You can apply online at this website to recieve grant money for any idea they find "awesome"

A link to a weekly quiz to gather opinions about issues going on around the world. A cool example of how easily globalization can happen with the use of the internet. A short time ago people didn't know what was going on around the world, now they can gain information and contribute to discussion!

I recently posted on posterous about the government's need to catch up on technology. Apparently Obama agrees!

More follow-up on useful links to help a nonprofit organization use social media. A lot of the time, for any agency, posting event invitations is the best bet in getting a response from "fans" of your organization

The Cautious Patient Foundation is dedicated to minimizing the amount of people that die per year from medical error. Here, an organization that shares CPF's values can apply and recieve grants that help patients and healthcare providers to communicate better by using technology. This is an excellent example of NPO's using the internet to spread the word about their mission and gain funding

Students at Western Connecticut State University had a class project where they helped 3 local nonprofits. They helped introduce new forms of social media that would help them create a web presence. Social media strategies were also given.

This article talks about why the cloud is good for non-profits.

The nonprofit sector is in a bit of a technology evolution/revolution. As the industry looks to reduce costs, increase efficiency and engage with constituents that are living lifestyles that embrace mobile, digital and social technologies as never before. It is here that the benefits and options that cloud computing brings to the table are clear.

this is a rather interesting article that could prove to be very helpful to non profits. It will be interesting to see where this technology goes in the future.

This is an application that google offers. It helps promote non profit organizations. The ad pops up on the right side of the screen when someone is surfing the web.

Google helps out non profits with more than just free internet services.  They also offer grants to help with technology usage.