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Microsoft's Windows Azure and Disaster Response

Tech Soup

Since it is a cloud-based platform it helps users save on physical resource costs, allows greater flexibility for online work and collaboration and the ability to get applications off the ground quickly. Second Harvest in Japan. How, You Ask?

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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We organize educational talks, workshops, exhibitions and public performances. In our 10th anniversary, CPF collaborates with AFP to develop a philanthropy program for young children aged 3-12. These stories come from all over the world such as US, China, Russia, Japan, etc.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

Microsoft Project and Huddle 's cloud collaboration solution to manage it’s many children’s rights projects worldwide. Its projects in Japan focus on educating and connecting Japanese youth with the young people KnK serves outside of Japan. It also uses both. All these are available as donations from TechSoup.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. " 6 questions to prepare you for a social media crisis – "In social media, the disasters people talk about most are fundamentally crises of public relations. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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Cloud Computing Worldwide

Tech Soup

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Sign up for TechSoup's email newsletters and discover great resources, ideas, and donated technology for nonprofits and public libraries. Mark your calendar!

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Cloud Computing Worldwide

Tech Soup

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Sign up for TechSoup's email newsletters and discover great resources, ideas, and donated technology for nonprofits and public libraries. Mark your calendar!

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Data for Global Health, Part II

Forum One

how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). Sherrilynne Fuller of the UW's Center for Public Health Informatics observed that a typical attitude to these daunting data infrastructure problems is "let's deal with that tomorrow and do fun stuff now."

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