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Cool Apps Roundup: Green Apps

Tech Soup

This inaugural post will cover a variety of green or environmental apps that are already out there. In my companion blog post on Why Apps Are Green , I talked about how apps permit the use of lighter IT infrastructure like mobile phones to accomplish things we previously used to do just on PCs. searches for green businesses near you.

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Seeds for a Future

ASU Lodestar Center

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance. Make sure you know what minimum wage laws provide.

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Seeds for a Future Part 2: Understanding communities and traditions

ASU Lodestar Center

This post is a continuation of Seeds for a Future Part 1: Getting your NGO off the ground. When starting a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in a community other than your own, it is important to recognize that there are cultural barriers (try to call these "opportunities") to consider. Like this article? Get another!

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia.

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I'll Be Moderating, "Getting It On(line) for a Cause," at BlogHer

Have Fun - Do Good

Would you like to use your blog to raise money for an organization, campaign or issue that is important to you? Presenters will include Green L.A. The BlogHersAct survey is live until July 8th if you want to vote on what issue the members of BlogHer should put their energy towards this year.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Green Technology. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. I see the grand wave of IoT and Big Data combining to generate the copyright issue for the ages. This is on a personal computing level.

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BlogHers, Gender Blogging, and Linux Chix in Cambodia!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The woman wearing the green t-shirt played the role of my daughter. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. They are currently doing research on issues impacting women and ICT in Cambodia. Technorati Tags: cloggersummit2007.