Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

My last full-time, Monday-through-Friday job was as an outreach director for a small international development organization in San Francisco. The truth is that your nonprofit’s success on the Social Web is directly related to the person who is managing your social media campaigns. Here are five reasons why: 1.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I think most people have heard of the One Laptop Per Child little XO portable computers that are designed for the rural developing world, but I suspect far fewer people have heard of the great work that the San Francisco, California based nonprofit, Inveneo , is doing in this area of nonprofit computing.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. ” The Google.org sponsored project invited Bay Area nonprofits to share information about their great work to make a better world. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Using TechSoup products or educational resources to stay GREEN ? Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Check out our Green Technology Page. Using a TechSoup product not mentioned above for green tech? Or is your nonprofit doing good work to save the environment? Interested?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Using TechSoup products or educational resources to stay GREEN ? Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Check out our Green Technology Page. Using a TechSoup product not mentioned above for green tech? Or is your nonprofit doing good work to save the environment? Interested?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

That's why we do an annual survey of our members — because our local volunteers are always striving to figure out how they can help your nonprofit use technology to do more good. To be a part of a larger nonprofit community/networking. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It’s time to get face-to-face with your nonprofit tech friends! Net2Local is a project of TechSoup Global that invites activists, techies, nonprofits and the social good community together to meet monthly in 50 cities around the world. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Go to the BSR Sustainability Hackathon 2013!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

As of January 25, there are 40,000 nonprofit members attending free tech networking events and workshops in 75 cities. San Antonio: 4,000 potential members. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Technology helps nonprofits deliver on our missions more effectively, but it can also be fiendishly complicated. For spring 2017, we're focused on nonprofit cloud services. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Monday, June 5, 2017.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I had a chance this week to preside over TechSoup’s booth at the latest Social Capital Markets conference (SOCAP) in San Francisco. It was a great chance to meet real live social entrepreneurs and further my quest to figure out how nonprofits fit in to this emerging field. It’s one of the premier social enterprise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Blogging for ChangeWriters View more presentations from Britt Bravo Tomorrow I'll be speaking about Blogging for ChangeWriters at the 2010 Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco. I'll be showing examples of "changewriter" blogs and sharing Ten Tips for ChangeWriter Blogging Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Here are the simple rules for nonprofit marketers as explained in this article in Social Media Today : Start with a hypothesis. Those are some great general principles, but how might you apply this to testing your digital marketing channels if you’re a nonprofit? Here is a case study of Red versus Green.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

piece and there a number of “Scanning for Good&# posts on nonprofit technology blogs that offer tips and use cases. Nonprofit Tech2.0 As SFGMC continues to “go green,&# we have for the first time made our concert program available on line pre-show. What are some of the best examples of QR codes for nonprofits?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 4, 2016

BoxWorks is back and better than before for nonprofits. More than 5,000 nonprofits have made the switch to Box as their modern content platform, and BoxWorks is where they get inspired and equipped to assure their successful use of Box. Our goal is to welcome more than 500 nonprofits! We expect over 5,000 guests this year.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Open Data San Francisco. The lineup began with an overview of San Francisco's OpenData Program.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. " RE-Volv.

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Care2

AUGUST 4, 2011

And at month's end she and Robyn, Care2's Editor in Chief, will be presenting the Care2 Environmental Impact Award to filmmaker Alexandra Cousteau (granddaughter of renowned oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau) at the Women In Green Forum. Social Media for Nonprofits New York, NY. Women In Green Forum Santa Monica, CA.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. The first one was started in 1991 by a San Francisco educator, Dan Sudran, in his garage. I came on in 2010 to start the statewide nonprofit network.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2017

Nonprofits can use this at a staff meeting or other gathering to help people improve their content creation skills as well as their skills with looking at social media data. Using the dots, they will indicate if they would "Like" (blue), "Share" (yellow), or "Comment" (green) on the post. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

There are Box apps for nearly every popular mobile device, and Box integrates with Microsoft Office, Office 365 Nonprofit, Salesforce, NetSuite, and many other tools. Comodo provides Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) digital certificates that authenticate your nonprofit's website. Little Green Light. He lives in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Raldolph, VT: Social Media Surgery for Nonprofits in Randolph. Montpelier, VT: Social Media Surgery for Nonprofits. Wellington, New Zealand: Going green with social media - #net2welly Social Media Sept (1 of 3). Get nonprofit tech highlights from San Francisco from their monthly newsletter. nda Sosyal Medya.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2012

nonprofits on their use of cloud services. To quote Annaliese Hoeling, NTEN’s publications director: A couple of the biggest take-aways for us were that 91 percent of nonprofits taking our survey reported using at least one cloud software solution?. NTEN surveyed 780 nonprofits across nine U.S. Primary Findings.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

With his bright green hair, crystal blue skin and environmentally-focused attitude, Captain Planet was the ultimate do-gooder. Nonprofits can sometimes be like the Planeteers. Although common in the for-profit sector, nonprofits often shy away from mergers. The nonprofits can go about merging in two different ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2008

Britt will be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. I will give a keynote about, "New Media: The Wizard Behind the Curtain," and teaching a session about, "Social Media Game for Nonprofits."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 28, 2008

For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2009

One way nonprofits and libraries can reduce their carbon footprint from travel is to try out new tools for virtual meetings. One free video conferencing service is Gmail voice and video chat that has been evaluated below by Monica Skinner , who is a San Francisco-based LEED architect , environmental designer, and GreenTech volunteer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause.

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NTEN

JANUARY 29, 2009

Jon Stahl has some awesome pants: the front and back of each leg is a different color -- red, green, blue and yellow. Amazingly, he still fits in them -- and he's bringing them to San Francisco in April. Luckily for you, he's also bringing his decade-long experience trying to get nonprofit software to play nicely!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 15, 2016

It's not so much that I've been a writer on green technology at TechSoup over the years. Just this week I had the pleasure of meeting a young woman named Anahma Shannon who organizes recycling efforts among 15 native villages in arctic northern Alaska for the tribal nonprofit, Kawerak , in Nome.

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NTEN

APRIL 20, 2009

Flickr Photo: Green Moon We're less than a week away from the really big show. There are a lot of tweets out there using the #09NTC hashtag -- including an announcement about this gathering for exisiting and potential Blackbaud partners: Blackbaud Connect Partner Network briefings at the 09NTC - Blackbaud Suite at the Hilton San Francisco.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 15, 2008

I'm speaking tomorrow at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco about "Changeblogging: How to Create Positive Change With Your Blog." My list is rather heavy on "green" topics. The conference is for nonfiction writers who want to write books that will create positive change, "from the personal to the planetary."

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Carpocalypse.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Inspired by the film, Rachel of Vampituity is asking people to create a Pie That Evokes Your Dreams for February's food blogging event, Sugar High Friday , and to help support the dreams of the nonprofit, Pie Ranch , in the process. Make a contribution to a nonprofit helping to transform the world of food through pie: Pie Ranch.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Here are a few ideas for your husband's new business venture: • Be green. Natural Resource Defense Council has an article, Greening Your Business , which lists tips for making your business green like recycling, using copier and printer paper that is post-consumer and recycled, using Energy Star office equipment, and getting an energy audit.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Here in TechSoup's San Francisco office, we use audio conferencing every day to talk with people working remotely, in the Bay Area, plus staff based in New York or Seattle, and often London or Poland. Audio conferencing is a green technology-it helps reduce the amount of travel people need to do to attend meetings in person.

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