Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. It is especially popular with grassroots organizations in the developing world because it is free and does not require an Internet connection.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2021

This may mean that they need a new laptop or printer, or a desk with good lighting. Since 2002, Debbie has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s annual web award competition. Since there are family obligations at home, it’s necessary for everyone’s schedule to be respected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I was lucky enough to have a front row seat in the reserved section with laptop and digital camera in hand to cover the opening ceremonies on Twitter. . Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. I'm still very jet-lagged and adjusting to both the time zone and culture in Mumbai.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

WWF disowned the ad , but not before DDB had submitted it for ad industry awards. In Australia, a fight-fire-with-fire approach to size discrimination rose more than a few eyebrows, and some people point to One Laptop Per Child's John Lennon endorsement as a culprit in its sales decline.

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See3

DECEMBER 17, 2007

My new OLPC laptop came tonight… My 9-year-old Meital is in charge, so hopefully I will be able to film her doing a review of it sometime this week. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! For those of you who don’t know OLPC, have a look here.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This would have come in handy a few years ago when my laptop was stolen from a parked car in Stanley Park. In January, the NYC BigApps competition will award a $20,000 cash prize and lunch with Mayor Bloomberg to the developers of the most creative applications using NYC data.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. There's still time to submit your nomination before October 31, 2011 for this year's Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public interest.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

Copel has won a number of awards for her service to the City of New Orleans. The library included 300 donated and library-owned books as well as laptops so evacuees could check on the status of their communities, file insurance claims, and communicate with family members. Libraries as Evacuee Resource Centers.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

It got a CES 2014 Innovations Award. It was by most accounts a good show with lots of weird stuff on display. Fortunately you can turn it off if you don’t want your activities in your bed monitored. NPR did an amusing story on this biometric device. The Lumo Lift is a small gadget that vibrates to remind you to stand up straighter.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. Here’s what it all looked like to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

The Case Foundation provided awards to participants who raised the largest number of friends, not money, every day and in total by the end of the Challenge. Friends of friends blogged on their behalf, sent text messages, walked dorm room to dorm room laptop in hand raising friends, asked their office colleagues for help.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

There’s a great story about Nora Ephron that illustrates how powerful addressing your audience is: Before she became an award-winning screenwriter, Nora Ephron was a senior at Beverly Hills High School. Reading on screens (laptops and smartphones) is such a unique user experience that the “how” becomes almost as important as the “what.”

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

When there, volunteers set up a laptop that guests could use to make a donation via CC’s web site. The traditional event held in previous years was at a restaurant, and a pre-dinner awards ceremony with major donors and board leadership was followed by a cocktail party open to all ticket buyers. In 2008, the event netted about $18,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees. We had wifi in the room and participants brought their laptops – this give us the opportunity for open lab time or what I call “shoulder to shoulder” learning. The power of peer knowledge at work!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Installation and Maintenance – With a cloud solution, administrators and end-users have nothing to install or maintain – no hardware, no servers, no special laptop or desktop software, etc. Grant awards and disbursements. Grant awards are frequently tracked in the same system that houses the grant applications.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. The People's Choice award winner is a Windows 8 app, YumvY , a cooking companion to help you prepare nutritious, healthy meals at home with the goal of addressing the obesity epidemic and related diseases like diabetes.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

The road trip footage was made into an award winning film and Darius Goes West is now a registered 501(c)3 organization. In Darius Goes West , Darius a fifteen-year-old living with DMD and his crew set out for California in a quest to convince MTV to customize Darius' wheelchair on the hit show, Pimp My Ride.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

For those who have an exercise bike at home, you can also encourage them to, set up their laptop or mobile camera and cycle together. Virtual Awards Ceremony. If you’re struggling to think of content for a livestream fundraiser, a great option is to make it an awards ceremony.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Finally, we offer our sincere congratulations to AbilityNet , the most excellent UK based accessibility charity, for winning the Digital Leaders 100 Award for 2014 in the NGO category. I particularly like their MyComputer My Way , a free interactive guide to built in accessibility features on desktop PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

They will be powered by the same operating systems used on desktops and laptop PCs – mostly Windows and Mac OS. " These are lightweight (one-to-two pound), full-function mobile devices, typically with keyboards and trackpads. Microsoft's new Surface Pro is an example of this type of new type of device.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I was flying into DFW and I had my laptop out and I was preparing a presentation and I was wondering, you know, “Do I know what I’m getting into?” And we won actually a lot of awards for that and it was really fun to see that come in. That was my first day officially working at a nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field. She is the 2010 NTEN Award Winner and was named to the NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector in 2008. He got the NTEN Award IN 2011. " Beth Kanter. " Find out more here. Marnie Webb. John Merritt.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A winner of numerous “Best App” awards, this app will likely become your favorite new social newsreading app. Your nonprofit can record audio files using your deskptop/laptop computer or Audioboo’s mobile app and then upload them to your own Audioboo Channel. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

They created the award-winning film, The Meatrix , about factory farming, and the hilarious film, Store Wars , about the importance of organic farming. Now, we've have it all in our laptops and we can make anything we want to make. I thought I'd share the transcript of the interview (done by CastingWords ) with you.

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