Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. We'd also like to introduce Bea Dominguez, who is writing about the nonprofits highlighted on the map. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. All that and she’s also a gifted writer.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured IT to further their missions. By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children. More Stories, Let's Add Yours.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. Get Your Story Up On the Local Impact Map. If you use any of TechSoup’s resources and want to have your story on the Local Impact Map, just email community [at] techsoup [dot] org with "Community Story" in the subject line.

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Georgia Map Local Impact 57

VisionLink

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Assisting the American Red Cross, VisionLink''s Community Operating System is being used to deploy a real-time national map for this Winter Storm. Users can view the entire region of the storm, or zoom into local areas.

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Wild Apricot

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Social networking Twitter maps application search social media. How can a small nonprofit organization, with limited time and resources for social media, find the right people to connect with in that microblogging crowd? Try your TPS.( read more ).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what lots of nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured-IT to further their missions. By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children. More Stories, Let's Add Yours.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

. —– I truly believe that in all communications, information sharing, marketing and even community building there is a natural balancing between more-and-more-global and more-and-more-local. Social media may connect people around the world but it can also connect them locally. Don’t forget the global context!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Twestival is back this September, this time focusing on local groups instead of a global campaign! Now is the time to help choose the local organizations that will benefit from the twitter-powered organizing and convening. Check out Twestival Local. Twestival Local puts the spotlight on hundreds of causes around the world.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

Depending on the organization’s size and locality, there may be specific local issues or pieces of legislation that are most important for them to make supporters aware of. For example, a local nonprofit working on educational issues may raise awareness about specific school board policies with the aim of making them more inclusive.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2012

Implementing truly gorgeous online maps still requires some custom code and technical know-how – but, the cost and learning curve involved has dropped considerably. Online maps provide a concrete, quickly digestible way to drive home the connection between your organization's work and where it takes place. ThinkShout.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Candid created this grant-mapping platform with generous support from the Knight Foundation and continues to offer it as a free resource with funding from the Tocker Foundation. The map highlights more than $5 billion in private funding for libraries since 2006. Libraries today are preparing for even greater demand for their services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TweepsMap is an interesting Twitter app that will put your followers on a map of the world, literally. Despite a few glitches, you use this tool to see if your audience is local or global. What did you discover by putting your Twitter followers on the map?

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2013

Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Taipei, Taiwan: Homemade online map showing geographic data. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? work, but we can renew our energy to connecting with our peers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Worst case: The orphanage collapsed like all other concrete buildings in town and the locals might hesitate to dig out HIV infected bloody kids. Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. Tags: maps. I haven't been able to sleep.

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Haiti Map Volunteer Tech 96

Nimble AMS

APRIL 21, 2023

Your organization does much to advocate for industry issues—petitioning local and federal level politicians to generate support for association-backed programs. Map out advocate roles and responsibilities so they understand their place in the program. Highlight any upcoming policies your advocates are working on.

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Advocacy Online Guidelines Social Media 118

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Mapping data can help nonprofits monitor protests and election violence, decide where to buy repossessed homes to convert into affordable housing, determine how and where to deliver supplies and aid in disaster-stricken areas – and document zombie invasions. Do you use GIS systems in your work? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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See3

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Historically, customer journeys have mapped someone’s purchase behavior for a product in the marketplace. By asking some basic questions about how your audience is interacting with your organization, you can begin to build a map of contact points. Map-Making 101.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

NetSquared Local is growing! We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Event Reports. Tuesday, July 2.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Don’t be afraid! August’s NetSquared Events. Tuesday, July 30.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

We are deep into June already, but NetSquared Local isn’t taking a vacation! NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! Event Reports.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? Interested in learning more? Join Manchester’s Steven Flower or Burlington’s Amanda Levinson this week to find a cure for what ails you. Event Reports.

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CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

And we couldn’t think of a better organization to highlight than Spur Local. Spur Local blew it out of the water last year with their Give Local Together Campaign. About Spur Local Spur Local (formerly Catalogue for Philanthropy), is a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities in the Greater Washington region.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Junior Achievement USA is an organization with over 100 local Areas that empowers the next generation by providing lessons in financial literacy, work and career readiness, and entrepreneurship. Embed maps to the event When it comes to the day of your event, your guests may have a little trouble finding your venue and parking in the area.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2012

FLOW is an on-site technology that broadcasts data instantaneously to the Water for People website/FLOW map providing important information about the operating status of WFP projects. I’m really excited to see what corollary projects or data sets can be incorporated into the FLOW system and map, too! ” Accountability.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Event Reports. Monday, June 10.

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Netsquared Local Guatemala Minneapolis 40

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You pull out your phone and type it into Google Maps. With a Google My Business listing, your business can pop up in these local searches, leading people straight to you. People use Google Maps for everything – for research before they visit somewhere, as a way to find a particular service closest to them, or even on the go.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work. I've always felt that maps are just plain cool. Now, I'd likely just create a Google Map.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

5) SEO can help you get local attention. Why focus on something as global as search engine rankings when your organization has a local focus? A Google Business Profile with reviews, a Google map image on your website, and Yelp can boost local rankings. Search engines include geographic information in the results.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2016

Authors Steve Zimmerman and Jeanne Bell have introduced a proven method for change management called matrix mapping. The matrix map cultivates sound decision-making that embraces the entire organization’s capacity rather than one program or person. Intro to the Matrix Map. Check out a sample of the matrix map.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

" While you might think that it came from the satirical The Onion , it was actually a real headline from our local newspaper here in San Francisco. Here's what I found, and I'll show you the steps I took in Tableau Desktop , available at TechSoup, to make the following map. Gathering the Data. Crunching the Numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. the amplifying of local campaigns defending the right to access web 2.0

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fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

Tableau supports a wide range of data sources, including local files, spreadsheets, relational and non-relational databases, data warehouses, big data, and on-cloud data. Availability of Maps. The map is yet another key aspect of Tableau. As a result, Tableau’s maps are extremely comprehensive and insightful.

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AFP Blog

JULY 2, 2012

GISuser.com GIS Location Technology - Microsoft Local Impact Map helps nonprofits illustrate the difference they make in a visual, dynamic : To meet that need, Microsoft is making the Microsoft Local Impact Map available to nonprofits to help them share their stories in a compelling way on their websites.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You pull out your phone and type it into Google Maps. With a Google My Business listing, your business can pop up in these local searches, leading people straight to you. People use Google Maps for everything – for research before they visit somewhere, as a way to find a particular service closest to them, or even on the go.

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Google Business Guide Map 52

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recently attended the US launch event for Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). It’s a way of interacting with other people, other places, and other times from anywhere you are.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Check out this video from NetSquared Northern Michigan’s recent meeting. They’re answering the question “how do I collect money online?”

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

Even though it’s virtual, you still have to promote the event, sell tickets or tables, get sponsors, and map out the program. Think about local and regional acts, celebrities with connections to your area, and people you have connections to through Board members, supporters, and friends of friends. And the weather!

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