Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Affordable video capability and basic editing software are now widely available and easy to use. Below is a list of tips and suggestions on making decisions to do with hardware and software, message and editing, video quality, and promotion ideas." But, how can organizations and enterprises best use video to inspire change?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

This week on the Microsoft Citizenship blog , there's an interesting profile of Concern Worldwide , an NGO that fights poverty in 25 of the poorest countries in the world. Like Concern, Foundation Nepal has field workers in very remote areas with limited Internet access.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

." Sharing photos online – a decision matrix for non-profit organizations : Social Media 4 Good – "Many non-profits, NGOs and International Organizations are of two minds when it comes to sharing photos on the internet. The decision matrix in below will help you decide which photos to share and how."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A copyright exception allows specialist organizations (generally a government agency or disability NGO or library) to make an accessible version of a published book without having to get permission from the author or publisher. The good news is that users without disabilities generally hate these locks.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

2016 NGO Online Technology Report. Based upon the survey results of 2,780 NGOs worldwide, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology. The State of Nonprofit Cloud.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Can cloud vendors simply close your account without notice?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

2) The customers, as a general rule, check to the open source or open API box on their RFP and then hire the vendor to do the implementation… they just don’t have the technical chops to really dive deep into the software. at 3:59 pm Yeah, I certainly worry about that dynamic with company-led open source software.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Over the last decade the discussion around nonprofit technology ( #nptech ) has primarily been social media, mobile technology, and online fundraising, however as the internet enters its next phase, nonprofits need to better understand some of the more complicated concepts that will shape the internet and its use in the decades to come.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too. I found out that thanks to Adam Hyde of FlossManuals.net , he will be distributing free printed guides to open-source software and he will also be giving out digital cameras to up-and-coming Cambodian photobloggers. and speak spanish?)

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. Taipei, Taiwan: NGO要怎麼搞群眾募資？- 綠盟經驗談. Paris, France: Brainstorming, Plans d'Actions sur Internet. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: Giving Tuesday Brainstorming. Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum. Wednesday, October 11, 2017.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

Connectivity is still an issue in most parts of the world, and we need to think of solutions that account for the lack of access to the Internet. NGO capacity is still lacking, but they must learn to own technology. Lyman gives the example of the user interface of a website, which we often. relevant to the audience you are serving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Finally, for your website to be compatible with the growing number of devices that it is likely to be viewed on in the coming decades – personal computers, smartphones, Smart TVs and appliances, and internet-connected mirrors and car dashboards, ensure that your website utilizes responsive design. Install an SSL Certificate on your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improvie their safety and security on the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

And think about it, email has been around for a really long time but the web, Internet, the amount of information, and how people use it has changed dramatically! and have been talking about what software skills we should identify in the job description. I think this is less important than having the skill to learn new software.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Learn How Your NGO Can Use Adobe Spark and Other Storytelling Tools. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum — October 6. Tuesday, October 10, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above. Ready to enter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Britt Bravo looks back on a poll from last year about recommending social networking software and points to recent spoofs about Facebook and Social Networking. Compete provides information on every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics. You'll also need some video editing software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

It is difficult for some women to write blogs because it requires going into an Internet cafe and women do not always feel welcome. The day before the conference, I spent some time at the Open Institute , the NGO that hosts the KhmerOS (Open Source Software) project. She notes that women can blog about politics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones. Peter Campbell equates Buying Software To Buying A House , a great metaphor, inbetween working on site redesign for the NPTech Community site. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. " Findhabeas.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. Increasingly powerful and feature-rich software applications are emerging to run these intelligent and interconnected mobile computing devices. . - Event Space Hacks: Two great ideas, unlimited open dialogue with peers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. These drones can supply Internet access at a fraction of the cost of near-earth satellites. TechCrunch. This 25 th.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. Salesforce implementation partners like Appirio and Cloud4Good are also offering discounts to help nonprofits tailor the complex software to their needs. The Demise of Facebook Causes.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Slack is freemium software that provides a centralized place to communicate with our colleagues through instant messages and in chat rooms. The latest scare this year is about how the Internet of Things could kill people. This was the year that Slack became a thing in our offices — it certainly did at TechSoup.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are also a provider of donor management software. It works in areas with slow internet. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We expanded this year to be able to provide product donations to pretty much any NGO in the world — 236 countries and territories to be exact. Here's our take on what 2015 brought in the areas of fundraising, software, hardware, mobile, cloud adoption, and security. Where software companies lead, we must follow.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Cloud computing has been around since the Internet, and everyone who is connected uses it one way or another. If you asked someone in a Polish NGO if they know about or are using the cloud, they probably wouldn't know what you are talking about. Some NGOs go beyond software as a service (SaaS) solutions by using web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The internet is loaded with amazing free or low-cost tools and resources! Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Global NGO Technology Report :: techreport.ngo. Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. What about the introduction of Khmer-Language software? He worked as a content editor for the Khmer language portal.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond these webinars, we’re also a donor management software provider, so if you’re curious about that and want to check us out. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. The Internet of Things. "The Internet of Things" is a bona fide new buzzword and is on most of the IT press forecasts for 2013.

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