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Growing the NetSquared Community

Tech Soup

The Ambassadors are senior NetSquared leaders who offer their support to other organizers in their country or region, allowing us to serve members in different time zones and in languages other than English. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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News by the Spoonful: The $10 USB Condom (Seriously)

Tech Soup

In honor of our Safer Online theme this month, our lead nonprofit tech news story is about a low-cost device that protects your electronics devices from data theft while you recharge them in places like airports, the "USB Condom." They teamed up with big Internet companies like Etsy, Vimeo, reddit, Kickstarter, and Netflix.

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TechSoup Honors Unsung Heroes

Tech Soup

From time to time, we love to feature the great work of people and organizations that we admire. The organization provides hot meals four times per week, clothing, warm showers, and hygiene items. Lending Free Home Internet Access to Students and Job Seekers. It is a blessing to meet so many interesting, wonderful people."

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Voices from the Community: Accessibility

Tech Soup

While some web developers may feel that meeting accessibility standards and offering assistive technologies to their staff or users is too large an effort , Rush holds that the time is right to take that very effort on. Sharron Rush weighs in again, this time with some of the best resources for learning about web accessibility methods.

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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. For examples of text-free avatars, see the United Way of Southwest Michigan and Amnesty International : Instagram Bios. 3) Post 3-7 times weekly to your Instagram and respond to your followers. Second, write a compelling Instagram bio.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

Tech Soup

Every now and then, we like to predict what's on the tech horizon. No Internet of Things (IoT) or big data. The New York Times also recently came out with an article on Reinventing the Internet to Make It Safer. What they said may surprise you. Cheaper Consumer Electronics. The Nonprofit Sharing Economy.

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An Interview with Jeska Linden about Nonprofits in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I grew up just outside of Detroit Michigan, daughter of a police officer and nurse. During that time, I discovered this group of English majors who had started their own Internet Company. There wasn't much of a budget for technology and many of my co-workers weren't especially tech-savvy. t enough hours in the day.