Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

But it's also the second largest mobile phone recycler in France and one of the largest in Europe. ADB's work is in three main areas: Local. At a local level, ADB operates a workshop to manufacture and recycle wooden pallets, maintain parks and greenways, and collect packaging for recycling. Here is ADB's story.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2013

You may have heard some buzz around Near Field Communication (NFC) and Google Wallet or have seen it at your local drug store or cafe. This technology basically turns your phone into a credit card, allowing you to make payments by simply touching your phone to an authorized hub. Also, one major U.S.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 28, 2011

The generosity of spirit of the NTEN community has helped us raise $10,547 to convene more local gatherings in 2012, but we still have a ways to go to reach our goal of $15,000 by December 31st. > The truck drivers had used their cell phones to get the word out to their networks via text message as the approached the city.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. New York, New York: Put Down Your Phone and Start a Movement: Introducing #DinnerMode. Asia and Pacific Rim. Central and South America. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. New York, New York: Put Down Your Phone and Start a Movement: Introducing #DinnerMode. Asia and Pacific Rim. Central and South America. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

multilaterals, and high-impact entrepreneurs in the social media space, mostly from the western world and Africa, besides others. “[In Africa] the race is on to find what mobiles can do in areas as disparate as public health, governance and education.” development in Africa. face and how we could help solve them.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Net2Local has adopted the core strategies of theme months to increase network cohesion and regional hubs to scale our ability to support local organizers. Fourteen Net2Local groups descended on their communities in full costume and delivered one-on-one training to local social benefit organizers. Theme Months. Regional Ambassadors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

” That’s when you use software on the Internet versus your local hard drive or local computer network. I’ve been in on all the phone calls. We heard that from Africa, India and Latin America. For the past year or so, she’s thinking about and talking about “Cloud Computing.”

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Leads acquired online are often best nurtured through social networks and converted in the mail, or over the phone if you're after monthly donors. Phoning your email supporters. Over the last 10 years, Sarah has worked on issues related to food sovereignty, genetic engineering, and local food security.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 22, 2011

Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your local bank account. you are advised to contact our correspondent in Africa the delivery officer McCulley Terence with the information below, Email: terencemcculley@yahoo.cn. Your Address: Home/Cell Phone: Preferred Payment Method (ATM / Cashier Check).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera (but don't be afraid to start with the cell phone in your pocket!). TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Africa + Middle East.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. The disaster in Haiti is a perfect example of these changes: the impact of the Real-Time Web and the power of our phones.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

And where is the local community in all of this? It’s a story with a simple solution, and it plays into existing narratives about the ungovernability of Africa, the power of US military and the need to bring hidden conflict to light. ” Is that that the story?) Nowhere to be found in this video.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. monitor supply levels at pharmacies throughout Africa.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. Google Drive.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We hoped to reduce confusion by defining the term near the start of the survey: Cloud computing allows you to access software via the Internet instead of from your computer hard drive or your local computer network. When you use cloud-based software, it is available anywhere you can use the Internet — not just in your office.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In addition to the global benchmarks, this year the benchmarks are also available for six regions: Africa. 25% say social media, 17% website, 13% print, 8% TV ad, 4% phone call, 3% radio ad, 2% text message, 1% billboard, and 1% messaging app. 94% vote regularly in local and national elections. Australia and New Zealand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. He recommends the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network , works with local rape crisis centers nationwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Sometimes a phone call or a quick walk down the hall to speak in person is more effective. For me, this means that I don’t own a TV or watch the local news. Or maybe you buy Girl Scout Cookies or make a one time donation to the canvasser outside your office building raising money to save the whales or feed children in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. Why not give a small donation to help a school in Africa, like Epic Change's projects or find a project in a corner of the world that is meaningful to you. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It covers 10 topics including humanitarian uses of drones: • Mobile and cell phones • New uses for TV and radio. Facebook is the most popular site in the Spanish-speaking parts of the America, also the Middle East, and North Africa. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. See the map here.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Recently, Freedom Fone was adapted by two farm radio stations through the African Radio Research Initiative , a 42-month project, the aim of which was to assess the effectiveness and impact of farm radio in many parts of Africa. . In Tanzania, Sullivan bought a second-hand computer locally to host the Freedom Fone software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I was very fortunate that in October 2004 in South Africa, there was a meeting of social change market places that was convened, and I met Buzz Schmidt, Founder of GuideStar. They also find it more convenient to share scanned documents through WhatsApp as they use their phones to click pictures of documents.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

How staff members answer the phone, whether the walls look bright, if your waiting room is inviting—these aren’t trivial. Imagine you run a performing arts organization dedicated to saving theater programs in your local public school system. What is considered nonprofit marketing? Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

The story is about how Diane has run into trouble with the local planning board is described here on her GoFundMe page and has incurred legal fees. She is trying to raise money by selling one of her horses and crowdfunding money to help with her legal fees. At age 7, he knew his passion was space and wanted to be a rocket ship pilot.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This time I’ll review some new developments in digital inclusion, smart watches, accessibility technology, apps in Africa, crowdfunding resources, and digital trends to expect in the next five years. And it doesn't have to be another phone interface (a Bluetooth headset does that much better). It doesn't need a camera.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

We have Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. And it’s free with a phone plan. So do you see in this map, WhatsApp is a top social messaging app in the world. So this is.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. But, in Africa, where we work, there are very, very few jobs in the formal private sector. In fact, 80% of the poor in Africa are poor, rural farmers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. CNN Money: 5 pay-by-phone apps tested.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

So, if you see Van speak, our goal is to have a place that you can plug in, a local leader who says, "Come to my house." I called Van Jones on the phone, because we're good friends, I was crying, and I said to him, "I have done 20 years of organizing one way, and I did it the wrong way. It was a very interesting community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I think that you have to check locally to see whether or not your area provides services for that, but it's something that you could do locally as well. So there's that part of it, the local, personal interaction that you get. We are able to make sure that food extras and things like that are done away with in a proper way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit transcend boundaries.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

From Barack Obama's campaign to the thousands of state and local races across the country, campaigners are relentlessly testing new approaches and refining proven tactics in online fundraising and social media to gain an edge over their rivals -- and in some cases to make history.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. I don’t want to say Google Home because then my phone’s going to talk to me, and my Google Home is going to talk to me and my locks on my doors are coordinated with it, and my thermometer is coordinated with it. I’m happy to send it to you afterwards. And I loved writing.

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