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Free In-Person Events for Nonprofit Techies

Tech Soup

Toronto, Canada: Toronto Net Tuesday: Digital Literacy for Nonprofits. Houston, Texas: Geek Dinner — Guided Discussion — Navigating the Nonprofit Relationship. Austin, Texas: Forbes Contributor Devin Thorpe: Together We Can Change the World. Arlington, Texas: DFW Nonprofit Geeks. Monday, September 14, 2015.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons.

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Social Media Well Conference

Connection Cafe

Author: Cheryl Black. Anyway, Blogwell was held at the University of Texas, ie right in Convio’s backyard. Create a training program to ensure social media literacy. From Texas Instruments , social media is global and we must keep that in mind. Thus I had the great opportunity to attend.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Today I’m in San Antonio, Texas, for the American College of Preventive Medicine annual conference. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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