Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September; we've now had several months to consider the findings and talk to some of you about what you think. It turns out that NGOs are trying out an array of cloud services. For the global NGO sector, cloud computing has arrived.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2016

But digital and mobile app payments are coming. The global internet population is set to triple in the next four years. By 2018, the global population of social media users is projected to grow to 2.44 Source: Global NGO Online Technology Report. 95% of NGOs worldwide have a Facebook Page. in 2016 and 4.3%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Since then it has grown from 106 million active monthly users to 310 million active monthly users. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). How has this impacted individual giving to NGOs in Mexico? Finally, digitalization is growing fast in Mexico. Giving Trends in Mexico: 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

By Michelle Chen , an independent scholar who recently graduated with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. As digital natives, many millennials (and younger) live on social media, which makes user-generated storytelling campaigns a great way to empower, inspire and engage this generation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 20, 2016

2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report :: Download. 2016 Digital Outlook Report :: Download. 2014 Cone Communications Digital Activism Study :: Download. Most of the reports listed are based on U.S. For Nonprofits Worldwide: 1. Published by the Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2010

On Apriil 29 Microsoft and TechSoup held an NGO Connection Day at the Microsoft office in Singapore. TechSoup's partner NGO, the Hong Kong Council of Social Services , attended as well, giving local attendees a personal insight on how TechSoup's global network enables capacity and community building around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. Tharum has served as a communications director for a number of international NGOs based in Cambodia, but recently launched his own communications agency.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

He now seeks to activate the network of leading crypto organizations look-ing to support charitable causes while driving crypto adoption. Wendy has worked with senior executives of global organizations to transform their leadership, culture, and organizations. duke@thegivingblock.com [link] [link]. Wendy Feher.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

He now seeks to activate the network of leading crypto organizations look-ing to support charitable causes while driving crypto adoption. Wendy has worked with senior executives of global organizations to transform their leadership, culture, and organizations. duke@thegivingblock.com [link] [link]. Wendy Feher.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

As a result of this temporary decline in social media ROI, web and email campaigns are being rejuvenated and very soon digital payments within social networks will revitalize online fundraising. Your nonprofit is active on at least two social networks and experimenting with a third. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For his day job, Robert runs Communications without Borders and the NGO Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization. As an unpaid volunteer, he organizes NetSquared in-person events where people from NGOs from all over the region come to talk shop and help each other. We also have individuals who are not attached to an NGO.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). The first speaker was Keith Jenkins who is the digital manager for National Geographic. Then there was interactive active segment that was brilliant. Jona Hölderle (@Pluralog) October 15, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a truism confirmed by the Arab Spring that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are among the key new public spaces of activism. Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference. I’ll be tweeting myself at @samgregory.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

And our Twitter chat was more global than ever before, with people from 20 countries participating! But how to activate them? Digital storytelling is a powerful tool for libraries to let their audience know, "Hey, we're here, and we do amazing work!" First, we want to thank every nonprofit and NGO who submitted.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Several of us from TechSoup Global will be there, and we'd love to see you! Here's a rundown of where to find us in sessions presented with TechSoup Global staff: Tuesday, April 3. Delivering Services Through a Global Network. Come share your challenges, learnings, great tips, and plans for global expansion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

Most nonprofits simply can’t compete in the crowded marketplaces of social media and digital advertising. The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer data are in, and while we are living through a multi-year decline in public trust, the NGO sector remains the leader in what trust we have left in four major sectors.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Washington, DC: Digital Trends — Look Back at 2015 and Ahead at 2016. Mukono, Uganda: Digital Activism.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Digital Strategy Innovation Summit. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit. This summit will gather the world’s most dynamic and high level executives operating in digital strategy. Data on Purpose 2019: “Navigating the Digital Now.”. Data on Purpose 2019: “Navigating the Digital Now.”. Nonprofit Management.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

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. Digital Wallets. Strange News. Accessibility.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday is a day of global generosity and charitable giving that takes place on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States. According to Giving Tuesday’s website , it is “a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity.” Make sure you actively encourage viewers to make donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is the sixth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Then, target a global, open audience.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

Robert Kirkpatrick of the UN Global Pulse project spoke of the pervasiveness of mobile technology in the developing world, and how together with mobile carriers they form a sort of sensor networks that give " digital smoke signals." NGO capacity is still lacking, but they must learn to own technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong. How does your NGO use technology to support your advocacy and education work? Cross-posted on Global s. Mlup Baitong???s It is a benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched. Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

These are the sessions I’m participating in and other sessions by TechSoup Global staff that I may be supporting or checking out as well. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. Who : Speaker: Rachel Weidinger | TechSoup Global. When : 10:30 a.m.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

By the time of Bookshare’s creation in 2001, new and better XML digital book formats had been developed. Instead of providing a scanning tool for independent reading, Bookshare would aggregate the scanning activity of the entire community. one a global norm and allows for easy import and export of accessible materials.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. trillion by 2020. All queries are encrypted.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It did herald the coming of something called augmented reality — overlaying digital images on the real world. We're also starting to talk to our houses with voice-activated smart home devices like Amazon Alexa –powered voice-controlled speakers, the Echo and Echo Dot. The craze was over before we knew it. In the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Digital Wallets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

initiative – an effort to galvanize the technology community to assist civil society organizations (CSOs) across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to harness the latest information and communications technology (ICT) advances to build their digital capacity. Unfortunately, that was not possible.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Every month, our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Burlington, Vermont: Free Open Office Hours for Nonprofits — with Sustainable Digital. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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