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Broadband Adoption in Chile

Tech Soup

Cisco released the results of a study last week , reporting that growth in Chile's broadband penetration has dropped from 45 percent in 2006 to 10.5 TechSoup Global ’s NGO partner in Chile, CDI Chile , is currently piloting a Cisco donation program to provide small and medium NGOs with networking hardware products.

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The Impact of Connectivity in the Future: Everything Is Connected, Cows will Tweet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With Dave Evans - Futurist At Cisco. ” Next up was Dave Evans, Chief Futurist at Cisco. I just spent two amazing days at the Social Innovation Summit 2013 , a cross disciplinary crowd of people who work on social good in the areas of technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business.

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Nuggets of news from the open source world

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This is old-ish news, but the acquisition of companies behind open source software by big behemoths continues with the acquisition of Jabber by Cisco. I agree, and I think that bodes well for us as more and more open source software is adopted in the sector (like CiviCRM, for example.).

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

Gyrus

This widespread adoption of mobile phones as well as other mobile devices such as tablets, e-reader, etc. Companies like IBM, Cisco are already using virtual platforms for meetings, interviews, and employee training. million, with the number of smartphone users worldwide forecast to exceed 2 billion users by the end of 2016.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We discussed ways to initiate organizational change to be more open to social media adoption in the context of training and coaching. I then modeled creating a thank you video with each team sharing a few words about how they use the videos and saying thank you to Cisco and FLIP Camera in a fun way. What is in it for us?

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

E-Mediat is funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) of the United States Department of State with support and in-kind donations from Microsoft, Cisco and craigslist Charitable Fund. I’ll be sharing blog posts about my experience here.

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22 Years Ago…

Tech Soup

Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, and Symantec are just a few. Cisco, Symantec, Adobe, Microsoft and others separately. Microsoft saw that it could reach more nonprofits with more software and the support to adopt it by partnering with us, and at the same time could build the capacity of the nonprofit sector. We could stop. Microsoft even.

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