Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Luckily, TechSoup is here to help, with mobile-website creation tools and all the resources you need to plan and implement a solid mobile strategy. According to 2013 Pew research : 91% of American adults have a cell phone, 55% have a smartphone, and 42% own a tablet computer. Image: Martijn van Exel. Mobile by the Numbers.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. It's just a series of still images, but it's almost heartbreaking. Tis the season: the season for Google Flu Trends to demonstrate the power of aggregated search data. So, if you were procrastinating on getting that flu shot, well.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

New image and video editing tools, templates, and other multimedia features allow you to create professional-looking newsletters, flyers, presentations, brochures, and other multimedia projects. We've compiled some resources from TechSoup, Microsoft, and our favorite tech news sites to help you get started. Third Party.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

GrantStation is a set of tools and resources to help organizations identify and secure grant dollars.) The Spring 2013 State of Grantseeking Survey includes these five new questions chosen by participants: What is the household income in your service area? Can you help us make the Spring 2013 State of Grantseeking Survey a success?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2015

GlobalMedic says that the images captured by the drones can help workers deliver relief more effectively. A Wearable Tech for Relief Challenge. Tech Wildcatters, a start-up accelerator in Dallas, announced a challenge called Emerge for making wearable technology for police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

AFP’s president and CEO, Andrew Watt, is on the 2013 NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector. AFP’s Reed Stockman curates one of the interesting and underused fundraising resources: the Association of Fundraising Professionals Technology Blog. Image: AFP.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. The homeless services nonprofit, Invisible People , does virtual case management check-ins with homeless clients by phone to see what they need and to provide them with resources. Images: Image one: mattza / CC BY-SA 2.0. Image two: Franco Folini / CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Melissa Cronin gave us some background on the event she helped start and pointed us toward resources we could use in our campaigns. In 2013, in only its second year, 10,000 groups in 40 countries participated. Resources for Organizations. Image 1 : Giving Tuesday / Some rights reserved. Image 2: Giving Tuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013. That often intimidates nonprofit folks (including me), but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are low tech tools and online (low cost or free) SNA tools and great resources like Marc Smith at NodeXL.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If you’re trendspotting the latest in webwear like me, you’ll notice that the bold and beautiful charity websites are slimming down the text and accentuating the images. that the very latest trend in web design this fall is all about the images. The 2013 Activism awards go mainly to charities and include: Change.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Colleague Miriam Brousseau tagged me and several other “close professional ties” asking us for resources on nonprofits and content strategy. The suggestions and resources these savvy, generous folks shared with me were invaluable, and I’m thrilled to now pass them on to you. Kelly Kingman (@kellykingman) September 12, 2013.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Furthermore, smartphone sales skyrocketed last year while PC sales are expected to decline in 2013. The speakers at The Chronicle of Philanthropy's Nonprofit Technology Forecast for 2013 , held in January, all emphasized the importance of responsive design for nonprofits this year.

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APRIL 26, 2016

For help doing just that, we turned to our friends at Tech Impact in Philadelphia for this great guest blog post. Subscribe to our blog for daily tips and information to help streamline your nonprofit’s tech growth. Here are 5 changes that social media experienced that your nonprofit may have missed according to Resource Media.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

TechSoup Global's mission is to do whatever we can to provide the IT resources and knowledge that charities, NGOs, and libraries need to operate at their full potential. We engage any and all high-tech companies that may be interested in donating or discounting their software, hardware, tech support, or cloud services.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

All April long, we’ll provide your organization with training and resources to tell its story digitally. Then you’ll create a short video (up to 90 seconds) or a five-image slide show to enter the challenge and win prizes donated by our sponsors. The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Contest is here! The ReStart Romania.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

To kick off TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge , we have compiled apps to help you showcase your organization in action. You can also create and share layered images with the touch of your hand. The result is a one-of-a-kind image that you can share on your website or through social media post-event.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Note: Right now Range only includes 2013 data for California because the full list of 2014 summer meal sites is not yet available. You'll hear from Marnie Webb of Caravan Studios, who will talk about childhood hunger and resources to reduce the hunger gap in your community, including WhyHunger.org and the Range app. Stay tuned!

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Young people are not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's tech-centric workforce—and that's a huge problem. More Resources. Image: Lake Superior Libraries Symposium.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities. This is more futuristic tech for good. In personal tech, lots of publications like Search Engine Land are reporting that Microsoft has launched a new feature in Bing that lets people ask follow-up questions to their initial search query.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge kicks off this April combining a month of learning and friendly competition into a media-making challenge. Challenge participants create a short video (up to 90 seconds) or a five-image slideshow to enter for the chance to win prizes.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

No tech knowledge, no web-development experience, no knowledge of HTML is ever needed — the website builder is simple and user-friendly. Multimedia, Maps, Social : Upload and share multimedia content like video, audio, text, and images on your mobile website. More Resources and Webinars. Logos and images: Guide by Cell.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Zeega is a content curation tool that lets you collect video clips, sound bites, and images from sites with public media (like Flickr, YouTube, Dropbox, and so on). TechSoup holds an annual Digital Storytelling Contest and provides resources for organizations to better tell their stories. Image: Ginny Mies.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2014

Take the time to recall images you saw recently on social media or the news. Check out the 2013 winners of the iPhone Photography Awards for inspiration. Head over to our Mobile-ize board on Pinterest for some more resources on mobile technologies, photography, and storytelling. Image: Alex Washburn/WIRED.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2014

It was the end of February in 2013 when Yahoo’s celebrated young CEO, Marissa Mayer, decided to end telecommuting at Yahoo to boost collaboration and communication within the company. The memo was leaked to tech journalist, Kara Swisher, then at AllThingsD. TechSoup Resources: ReadyTalk Discount Program on TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

You don't have the time to think about human resources management, or the money to hire a dedicated HR professional, and anyway, you can just use your best judgment when an HR issue comes up.Can't you? In 2013, the TechSoup community was surveyed. Image: 123rf.com. HR tsconsultingservices human resources tshrsolutions'

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

If you have a good idea, the potential to change lives and the ability to create your app, starting today, November 5, 2012 through February 28, 2013, your app has the opportunity to make it to the top for up to US$15,000 in prizes. Top Image: Take that, app!, William Brawley Bottom Image: Microsoft Corp.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2015

A Forbes article published in 2013 states that 1 in 5 Americans works from home at least one day a week. TechSoup's donations and educational resources provide you with the tools to work hard to change the world even when you can't be physically in the office. Image : Brian Goodman / Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition. Just under 200 million of them were sold worldwide in 2013. Additional Resources. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Conservation mapping and 3D imaging. In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. Additional Resources. " Image 1 : Lee / CC BY-NC-ND. Image 3 : U.S. Tracking storms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. If you are interested in online fundraising but don’t have the resources to build a custom platform for donations like charity: water, there are applications that help nonprofits get started with online fundraising quickly, including Salsa and Network for Good. How can your organization apply this?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2014

Since the fall of 2013 when Microsoft made its product donations available to 501(c)(3) faith-based organizations including churches, synagogues, and mosques lots of faith-based organizations have been discovering TechSoup. Additional TechSoup Resources for Faith-Based Organizations. Some Little Known Faith-Based Technology Resources.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Keep it simple – a photomontage with several powerful images can make for a great story. If you’re inspired by Jones and Lasica’s advice and interested in honing your digital storytelling chops then stay tuned for TechSoup’s upcoming 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge. Image: SusanChavez.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

Please visit our Software Download Resource Page or Microsoft's Download FAQ for more information about downloading your Microsoft request. After Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Microsoft will also be electronic delivery only. Image: Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. Pacific time, Monday through Friday).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Announced at Dreamforce 2013, Salesforce1 is a unifying, mobile-friendly package of Salesforce's products and services. More Resources. Read our CRM resources round-up for the best CRM articles, blog posts, and webinars from TechSoup and beyond. Image: Sample donor information in the DonorPerfect Mobile app (DonorPerfect).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. By handling the accounting in-house, Veronika also saves time because she doesn't have to train, manage, and explain BITS intricacies to an external resource. Images: Business in the Streets. " Keeping Business in Mind, Community at Heart.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. By handling the accounting in-house, Veronika also saves time because she doesn't have to train, manage, and explain BITS intricacies to an external resource. Images: Business in the Streets. " Keeping Business in Mind, Community at Heart.

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