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The best of the web this week:

• Using video to expose human rights abuses
• The guidebook from YouTube on creating good nonprofit video 
• Why technology is more about psychology than anything else

The evening focused on highlighting a number of important trends in the tech world that present new and interesting opportunities for nonprofits to provide services, reach supporters, raise funds, and build community.

As a busy Girl Guide leader for a Brownie Unit in Ottawa, Ontario, my team and I do meet for face-to-face, long-term planning, but we use the internet to research ideas and to finalize things in the days (often hours!) before our weekly meetings. We searched for a solution that worked for us and finally settled on a cloud-based file-sharing service called Dropbox. Here’s how we made the decision…

The best of the web this week:

• Ways your nonprofit can use data for promotion, engagement and reporting
• How might free access to Wikipedia change Africa and the Middle East?
• A quick guide to SOPA & PIPA for Canadian nonprofits
• How to use data to know how to engage your donors

It's happening in nearly every office – employees are using their own mobile phones and tablet computers for work email and countless other work things. The trend is called "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) or the consumerization of IT. Having all kinds of diverse devices and software floating around in the workplace wreaks havoc with IT systems. What's an organization to do to get a handle on this?

The best of the web this week:

• What you need to know about creating an online map
• How to make your email look good on mobile, and why you should care
• IBM's 5 predictions of tech innovations that will happen in the next 5 years
• How the internet is changing the way consumers - and nonprofit supporters - make decisions

Are you ever at home and wish you could open a magic window to your work computer? If you have VPN or you can access your applications online through the cloud then you already have that magic window. For everyone else, it turns out there is a pretty simple and easy way to get that magic window – GoToMyPC.

We've already learned a lot about what apps are out there, how nonprofits and libraries are using apps, and what your app needs and interests are. We're featuring a changing selection of useful, innovative, or just plain cool apps in our App It Up page showcase.

The best of the web this week:

• Why social media can suck
• Benchmarking online community for the charitable sector
• How to get the most out of Google Analytics
• Nonprofit communications trends for 2012

A look back at what we accomplished in 2011, and our priorities for 2012.