NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

A Photo Essay by Wendy Marinaccio A team of 30 NTEN-ers volunteered our mornings at the Community for Creative Nonviolence, which runs the largest homeless shelter in the country. Cisco donated the equipment and our fearless leaders Peter and Theresa taught us what to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. He has seen it all. Campus Party organizer Futura Networks also recognizes that a big driver for young techies is…social relevance. billion to date.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2011

The Spirit of the Gulf Coast is an all-volunteer documentary initiative founded to use photo, video and social media to report on the continued impact of the BP oil spill to Gulf Coast communities and beyond. Inexpensive Tools Are Available.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Cisco Security analyzed this increase in spam and the spam content on Monday , and concluded that clicking on the links on that message installs malware on your computer which attempts to steal personal data and other credentials. Photo: Nan Palmero , CC license. Over the past weekend, there was a surge of such types of attacks.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

Our donor partners Microsoft and Cisco , for example, are matching their employees' donations to earthquake relief efforts. MicroMappers , a "microtasking" service, asks users to identify tweets and photos that show earthquake damage. Most major news outlets have also compiled lists of charities doing good work in Nepal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

I was lucky enough to work along side Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed , both experts at capturing stories on video and sharing through social channels. This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day. To be a little meta, here’s a photo by Mark Horvath as the video was being shot. Tech Recycling Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

Photo by Kalabird Johanna Bates climbs a ladder to install the wireless nodes. The great folks at Cisco not only donated the hardware, but sent a team of their best folks to oversee the installation and lead the volunteer group. Michaela Hackner got some excellent photos of the work down at the Community Center.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

A recent post by Isaac Kiehl highlighted social media, and in particular the use of online photos, as a means by which nonprofits can improve interaction with the community. A report by tech giant Cisco found that 51% of all consumer internet traffic in 2011 was video traffic. Consultan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2009

Photo by Joel Zimmer The annual Day of Service at the NTEN NTC Conference has been a tradition since 2000. In addition to the one-on-one consulting (captured by WeAreMedia Flickr BootCamp folks), a large group of nonprofit techies headed out to install two wireless networks, with equipment provided by Cisco, at the St.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

Winners of the Digital Storytelling Challenge (TSDigs) stand to receive exciting prizes from TechSoup’s generous donor partners like Adobe, Cisco Systems, Seagate, Citrix, Flickr, and SlideRocket. Now that the submission deadline has passed, it’s time to choose the winners. How is the organization making a difference?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day. To be a little meta, here's a photo by Mark Horvath as the video was being shot. Wireless Network Installation A group of volunteers, with parts and guidance from Cisco, installed of a wireless network at the WildTech Shelter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

Every year, we include a large group hands-on project where an army of 30 techies help with computer recycling or install a wireless network with parts generously donated by Cisco. Photos: Lydia Mann - Flickr. These projects don't require deep technical expertise and are always a lot of fun. See you in 2011 in Washington, DC.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2015

Every day, people upload more than 350 million photos on average to Facebook. Cisco Systems estimates that mobile video will increase 14-fold between 2013 and 2018. A snapshot of their findings. In just one year, the number of video posts per person has increased 75% globally and 94% in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. And Cisco says that 90% of the world’s data will be video in four years. Start with an accounting of what video and photo assets you already have, and see how they can be put to work for your year-end plans. Holy smokes! Explore Personalized Video.

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

We started the TechSoup product donation program in 2002, with Microsoft, Cisco, Intuit, Symantec, and a few other partners making donations available to nonprofits and libraries. The whole team here at TechSoup continues to work each day to help organizations like yours put more of your hard-earned dollars toward helping your communities.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2011

The film, photos, and blog entries from the initiative can be. Basho Mosko , San Francisco, CA @bashomosko Basho Mosko is part of Cisco's Corporate Affairs Marketing team, managing the direct outreach to strategic nonprofit partners and video storytelling. Spirit of the Gulf Coast all-volunteer documentary initiative in Summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

I'm slowly blogging the posts, videos, and photos that I captured last week along with some reflections. Susan and Karen were on a twenty-person team, led by John Nuno of Cisco, that worked with homeless clients in a community technology lab at the Wilderness Alliance. Peter did a strategy consult with a local organization.

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MAY 5, 2009

Cisco sponsored the project and provided the hardware for the network. Photo Credits: SteveLavo (Flickr). I joined a group project installing a mesh wireless network on Treasure Island, a community in San Francisco which is home to many low income families many of who were previously homeless.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2012

We were impressed with the quality of the photo slideshows and videos, and all the hard work that went into them. First Place Photo. FitnessForAfrica was our community's favorite for photo, taking home a Lytro camera courtesy of SurveyMonkey. Best Single Photo Entry: American India Foundation. Third Place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2008

Bernard , thanks to a generous donation from Cisco Systems. Now, off to find the photos and video streams and utterz. Another team of nonprofit techies helped install a wireless network at the Community Center St. All in all, a great day for local nonprofits and nonprofit techies alike.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

By 2020, Cisco forecasts that there will be 50 billion things connected to the Internet in this way. also predicts that the free Facebook photo sharing service, Instagram , will become an increasingly useful tool for nonprofits and NGOs, especially on mobile devices this year. Some Final Bold Predictions.

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