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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. I followed up the Chiang Mai gathering with other meetings with Thailand-based Martus users, and just touched down in New York.

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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although we've worked with DDD on and off for seven or eight years, this was the first time anyone from Benetech had had the chance to visit their offices in Laos (I've been to their New York City offices where founder Jeremy Hockenstein is located and where their sales efforts are based, but Laos is much cooler to visit!).

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

As an independent filmmaker, Windy has produced and directed promotional videos, films, and documentaries, including “The Tillamook Burn” (2003), “The ‘D’ Word: Understanding Dyslexia” (Sundance 2012), and “The Eyes of Thailand” (2012). Windy founded D.V.A. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

As an independent filmmaker, Windy has produced and directed promotional videos, films, and documentaries, including “The Tillamook Burn” (2003), “The ‘D’ Word: Understanding Dyslexia” (Sundance 2012), and “The Eyes of Thailand” (2012). Windy founded D.V.A. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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Wendy Sternberg Leaves Her Medical Career to Heal the World

See3

Wendy just spent the several months in Thailand as part of the very exclusive Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University. The group later travelled to Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. Wendy’s work was just written about in the Bangkok Post. Here they describe her best-known program.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. YCAB Foundation is an NGO based both in New York and Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

After spending seven years in the New York advertising agency world, Brooke Sadowsky decided to put her skills to work on behalf of selling conservation. Since this transition, Brooke has enjoyed working on social marketing campaigns in Mongolia, Thailand, and Laos PDR. This article was originally published at: [link].