Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Join our global tweet chat on September 18 to discover the latest in social media best practices. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Honolulu, HI: Overview of Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Tuesday, September 17.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To ensure corporations respect human rights in their global operations. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Kijani ● kijani.ngo. International Corporate Accountability Roundtable ● icar.ngo.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. Seattle, WA: Facebook: A Discussion of the Strengths and the Limits of Social Networking. Kisumu, Kenya: Mozilla Make a Party Western Kenya joins together with Netsquared Kenya.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

There are several virtual events scheduled, including a global tweet chat on September 18. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Honolulu, HI: Overview of Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Monday, September 23.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2011

As a sponsor of this fundraising run in cooperation with TechSoup Egypt and TechSoup Kenya , TechSoup Global is proud to support SANGONeT and the runners as they make their journey through the Sahara. Photo: SANGONet's No Pain No Gain.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 60 cities. New York, New York: Too Important To "Go Viral" — Using Facebook Ads to Drive Predictable, Repeatable Impact. Busia, Kenya: Stop Cyberbullying Day SCD 2016.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So far we've scheduled events in Kenya and Uganda, and will be adding more cities throughout the fall. New York, New York: #GivingTuesday: Creation of a Global Giving Movement. Seattle, Washington: Facebook Strategies for Nonprofits. Busia, Kenya: Office 365 Workshop Train the Trainer NetSquared Kisumu.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Every month our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Naples, Florida: How to Stand Out and Get Attention on Facebook! Busia, Kenya: Net2 Kenya Subregional Conferences — Kisumu Busia and Kakamega. Tuesday, September 6, 2016. Wednesday, September 7, 2016.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. The project is controversial in that it will grow Facebook’s user base.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. 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. The Sunrise.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You can follow Traveling Postcards at travelingpostcards.org , on Facebook , and on Twitter ( @TravelingPost ). I imagined women or girls who received cards might keep them in a place in her home, in a drawer, or on a shelf that would always remind her that she is cared for, and that she is a part of a much larger global community.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

You can also link a Pinterest account to a Facebook or Twitter profile. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Users are encouraged to share and "like" pins. They can "repin" things that.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. The Demise of Facebook Causes.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Having project managed TechSoup Global's 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey , I can heartily agree with that. TechSoup Global conducted a huge global cloud survey of NGOs in over 80 countries in March of 2012 and released the results in September. We gathered so much data! Now what to do with it.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Every month, our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Using Facebook Ads to Drive Predictable, Repeatable Impact. Busia, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Joins MLH Hackathon 3 December 2016. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Storytelling 2016.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Facebook’s new Internet.org initiative is perhaps the biggest NPTech news item. The new program was announced by Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg in late August. Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? Now, here's the latest: Digital Inclusion.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? Digital Inclusion. News flash. TechCrunch. What the heck.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

Their story was one of the ones that stood out the most for me from the series, so I was thrilled when a woman named Houria Iderkou, who set up a Causes campaign for KickStart on Facebook, contacted me to see if I'd like to interview Fisher. Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. You're not going to Peru."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

You can also link a Pinterest account to a Facebook or Twitter profile. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Users are encouraged to share and "like" pins. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya. Response was laughter).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. One of the women that stands out is actually someone who participated in our 2008 training, which took place in Kenya. Her name is Solame.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. But, we’re concerned about small nonprofits who are not Google, Facebook, Pearson or Benetech, and they aren’t able to show up in a place like DC. Nairobi, Kenya Next I headed to Nairobi, Kenya. So, we fill in for them.

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