article thumbnail

Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. In July 2010: 1,555,360 total number of users in Romania.

Romania 178
article thumbnail

Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems. Worman said that the challenge platforms also promoted local champions who had actually solved a social problem. spanhidden.

Local 36
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Great reads from around the web on October 25th

Amy Sample Ward

Net2 Think Tank Round-up: Creating Awesome Video | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "For this month's Net2 Think Tank we asked you to share your tools and tactics for creating effective video messages – regardless of budget and organization size.

Web 175
article thumbnail

Social Media Tips from the TechSoup Global Network

Tech Soup

Read a recap of TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's Tweet Chat , which explored content curation and discussed the best tools for it. Here are three tools to measure audience engagement on social media. Additionally, representatives from local nonprofits shared their experiences with social media at the various forums.

article thumbnail

TechSoup Global: Springing into Action

Tech Soup

Get started on telling your story with tools from the TechSoup catalog. For the past few years, TechSoup for Libraries has been part of the Edge Initiative , an effort to create benchmarks and tools that support continuous improvement and drive investment toward public access technology. 3D printing at your local library?

Global 55
article thumbnail

Social Media Tips from the TechSoup Global Network

Tech Soup

Read a recap of TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's Tweet Chat , which explored content curation and discussed the best tools for it. Here are three tools to measure audience engagement on social media. Additionally, representatives from local nonprofits shared their experiences with social media at the various forums.

article thumbnail

Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. Strange News. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

Phone 48