Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

TechSoup Japan Disaster Relief Program Launches to Assist Local NGOs. CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs. Update from CDI Chile's Mobile Telecentre and How You Can Help. Image: life preserver, dibytes. Updates from TechSoup's Partner and Friends in Japan.

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Hurricane Disaster Chile Haiti 60

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

During the past few years, InterConnection has also participated in supplying badly needed IT equipment to disaster stricken areas like Chile , Haiti and Pakistan , and Japan. Most of the computers that the organization works on are donated by local companies and residents. Suffice to say that they’re a leader in the U.S.

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Czech Republic Volunteer Build Chile 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ben Horin noted that TechSoup Global did not have a partner in Haiti, but they did in Chile. They also have an executive loan program where an employee can do a longer stint of volunteering for a local nonprofit as Tom Moran, Director of Customer and Partner Experience for Microsoft did for the United Way King County.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We opened ourselves up, invited communities, and created an expectation that asking for help in these spaces will result in real-life action. And on Facebook we saw posts like this on our wall: "There are 100 senior citizens on a hill in Jacmel who haven't been helped. Please bring them water."

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Disaster Haiti Los Angeles Social Media 89

Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Reflection South Africa Guinea Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. In Puerto Rico and Chile, there are museums made out of posters so that kids in parks can come and visit real art—well, it’s not real art, but you’re getting access to Picasso for $5. It did that more than once.

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Museum Puerto Rico Change Boston 20

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

I found this so amusing that I immediately shared with a colleague who commented that he didn’t realize he needed penguin drama in his life until he heard about this. Timmy came to the National Aquarium after being found on a local beach with a spinal injury. He couldn’t walk and dragged himself around with his beak and flippers.

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