Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The Adobe Foundation is a private 501(c)(3) foundation created and funded by Adobe to drive social change and improve the communities in which Adobe employees live and work. Boynton High School in San Jose, CA uses stop-motion animation to tackle water conservation. Grant Programs from the Adobe Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The SafeChat Silicon Valley Domestic Violence Collaborative, made up of four nonprofits who provide services in the San Jose, California area, launched this online chat service in August 2016, successfully completing its two-year pilot phase in August 2018.

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Care2

MARCH 17, 2016

Another awesome 16NTC conference starts next week in San Jose. It Takes More than a Hashtag to Build a Movement: Network Building for Change. There's going to be some terrific panels aimed at nonprofit advocacy, fundraising, tech, and leadership teams. Digital Outlook: Ready, Set, Go… Wait, Where Are We Going?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 18, 2006

Great article today in the San Jose Mercury News. We enjoy working with Benetech's funders, who share our passion for changing the world. Palo Alto company's innovative software uses photos to teach the developmentally disabled. We really appreciate our local partner, C.A.R.,

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

This year's #16NTC Nonprofit Technology Conference is in San Jose, right around the corner from TechSoup's San Francisco office. A well-designed app can be a great way for your nonprofit to motivate people to take action, change behaviors, convey important information, and inspire real change.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

" The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog – A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

" The TwitterKids of Tanzania | The Epic Change Blog - A beautiful update from the Epic Change blog where Stacey and Avi are now in Tanzania working with the "school that Twitter built" last year from proceeds of Tweetsgiving, and where this year's donations will help bring technology. "Hujambo

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 11, 2007

The first is the initial international changes as we take Bookshare.org global. My tradition is to make smoked lobster for my wife, Virginia, and the local newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, was kind enough to print this fact in an article titled: What notable business leaders are doing for Mom.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2006

Girls for a Change , a nonprofit that pairs women with middle and high school girls to help them create social change in their communities, is looking for mentors in the Bay Area and Phoenix. Through this awesome after-school program, these young women are becoming true social change agents. girl social change mentor

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2015

It's that time again to start the process of gathering session proposals from the NTEN Community to help inform the program for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) in San Jose, California on March 23-25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

We're also seeing more nonprofits take this approach for fundraising, program development, and social change. Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ". I just wanted to capture a couple of examples that came to me this week, well, through crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

My role changed from the “expert&# to guide on the side. Change needs to happen now or organizations risk playing a game of catch up. Opera San Jose Case Study. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

TechSoup Global's NetSquared project is doing some amazing work, particularly on the use of mobile technologies and social change around the world. Leading the pack with innovative ideas, amazing grassroots social change, and barn-raising tech solutions, the N2Y4 is not to be missed.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. At TechSoup, we believe in digital inclusion and using technology for social good. When we hear about nonprofits like Community Technology Alliance (CTA), we get really excited.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

We''re looking for 15-20 enthusiastic and diverse people who are dedicated the the mission of NTEN and the goal of the NTC being a place where people can Connect, Learn, and Change the world through participation in the event. Interested in participating?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 15, 2007

One of my jobs is as the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that works to help nonprofits and NGOs use the social web for social change. On April 16 we will announce the 20 NetSquared Featured Projects that will receive an all-expense paid trip to the NetSquared Conference in San Jose, CA May 29-30, 2007.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2015

TechSoup and its members have been central to the launch of BetterWorld Wireless and subsequently our ramping and scaling up of Mobile4All — a partnership with San Jose-based Community Technology Alliance, Downtown Streets, and a host of other corporate and nonprofit partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Examples: San Jose Opera use of #Operaplot Twitter Hashtag. Also, the way people are consuming content is changing because of social media. This changes how nonprofits need to think about web social content strategy and how to make it efficient. 3: Use conversation starters to engage your target audience.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2016

Change Workshop: Managing Change to Ensure a Technology Project’s Success. Diversity in Giving: Exploring the Changing Landscape. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: An Unfiltered Conversation about Culture, Leadership & Change. There you have it, my top picks for NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

Now" requires major changes to how we work and what we offer. I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. They didn't speak to the thrilling drumbeat of change at the heart of innovation. The solution is in focusing on changing form more than content. Changing hours and pricing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Our local paper, the San Jose Mercury News, did two great pieces on Benetech, a business section feature story and an exceptional column by Mike Cassidy entitled An Executive Does Well By Helping Others. If you know some brilliant developers who want to actually get paid to change the world, put them in touch with us.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

It changes the stakes when you feel accountable not just to visitors and donors but to remote community producers as well. Did we change too much? In the meantime, join us Wednesday in San Jose or at The Tech in Second Life (in virtual New Venture Hall ) for an afternoon of lively discussion.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

Both in attendee feedback and in our own debriefs, we''ve identified a number of points that we want to formally share back out here to gather additional feedback and share some of our thoughts as we look ahead to 2016 (in San Jose, March 23-25). We noticed during the NTC that many people weren''t changing sessions ( FAIL ).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). Which made my mind go to a far more irreverent destination: Mad Libs. Pick a plural noun. Then an adjective. Then a number.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

The San Jose Museum of Art has drastically changed its approach to security, replacing guards with visitor services staff who provide interpretation and monitor visitor actions in a less threatening manner. They aren’t isolated “first Sunday” programs; they change the face of the museum to visitors.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / San Diego, CA / Not available. Examine major gift planning in the context of current economic conditions, changes in donor populations and increased competition for the charitable dollar. Agents of Change Summit. Agents of Change Summit. Fundraising. Technology.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup. The top 20 mashups will be selected by the NetSquared community and the winners will be invited to attend this year’s NetSquared Conference (N2Y3) in San Jose, CA May 27-28, 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

And then finally one of our project sponsoring organizations is the Tech Museum Awards in San Jose, so there are several US based Tech Laureates who have posted projects. Beth Kanter, BlogHer CE for Nonprofits and Social Change, also writes Beth's Blog. He weighs 1/3 what the other two do, but he thinks he's a big dog.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

One of the resources she shared is a book called Brain Rules , which presents studies about the power of "cognitive force environment"--the idea that we need to be able to actually change an environment to learn from it. A few highlights: Cecelia Garibay talked about audience development at the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

One of my mentors, Michael Brown, told me, “The only way to get better is to change.” So now, after almost a year of Game Fridays, it’s time for a change. Why the change? He was talking poetry, but over time I’ve found it to be one of the most useful, challenging ways to approach a range of situations.

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