Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2014

If you’re holding monthly events gathering the nonprofit technology community, let me know , and I’ll include you in the next community calendar. Internet Safety for Community Groups. Busia, Kenya. Maker Party Western Kenya. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Have you ever thought about hosting nonprofit technology events in your community? Not only will you be contributing your skills to local nonprofits, you'll also be building your reputation and connecting with your tribe. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Image : Chris Heuer / CC BY-NC-SA.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. So far we've scheduled events in Kenya and Uganda, and will be adding more cities throughout the fall. Busia, Kenya: Office 365 Workshop Train the Trainer NetSquared Mombasa­ Friday, October 9, 2015. Feeling overwhelmed?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our free events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Naples, Florida: #Storymakers 2017: Creating Images and Video with Adobe Spark. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

TechSoup’s NetSquared community organizers connect nonprofits with local technology experts. The goal is to create strong, self-sufficient communities of nonprofit technology professionals (and accidental techies too!). NetSquared community in Austin for the 15NTC conference in March. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community of Tech4Good meetups is growing! However, we aren't everywhere yet , so we're looking for community leaders to start new groups. As a NetSquared organizer, you will become known as someone who's a leader in the Tech4Good community. Las Vegas, Nevada: AdWords Basics.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. Find your local #Tech4Good group. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Impacts to Philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Check out the [blog]([link] to get a taste of our grassroots community. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link].

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

These live, in-person events are free or by donation and are the place to be if you want to network with your peers, prefer learning in an in-person environment, or are looking for ways to give back to your community. Each NetSquared group is run by volunteers who program events reflecting the unique needs of their community.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

That’s why TechSoup Global also offers NetSquared, community of nonprofit technology meetups with groups in twenty countries. So join your local NetSquared group and start participating in the conversation. And if you don’t have a local group we’ll help you start your own. Thursday, April 17. Monday, April 21.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Storymakers Community Events. Kisumu, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kisumu. Kakamega, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kakamega.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. Vancouver, Canada: Community Management Inside Out: Why culture matters. Kisumu, Kenya: Mozilla Make a Party Western Kenya joins together with Netsquared Kenya.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Kakamega Town, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Regional Meeting /Kakamega County. Image : Liz Kearley.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Don't worry, there are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

ChildFund International just rebranded from the Christian Children’s Fund last week as an effort to demonstrate a singular commitment to children’s welfare today and tomorrow (image: Faith Smiling by ChildFund, NZ ). These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Mango trees in Kenya.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

I heard from an organizer who told me that her last two jobs have come from her volunteer role in our community, and from many others who told me that getting together with their peers is what gives them the energy to continue to find innovative ways to use technology for good. Join them every month for a dose of community invigoration!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

One of the projects, GoodGym , is a group fitness app where participants get fit by doing physical tasks that benefit their communities. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. Image credit: Hackathon, hackNY.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone.

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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. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Check out the blog to get a taste of our grassroots community. Image : Doxieone / CC BY-NC-SA.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Find your local #Tech4Good group. Check out the [blog]([link] to get a taste of our grassroots community. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link]. Every month our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Want to learn about PCI compliance?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Busia, Kenya: Safer Internet Campaign: February 10th - March 25th.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

She says: “I like to reach communities that we haven’t reached before in the developing world like what we’re doing to bridge the digital divide with the Aga Khan Development Network in Mozambique. I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A wealth of data sources are becoming available online, allowing data from around the world to be mingled, mixed, and mashed up -- and where data does not yet exist, communities are using these new tools to gather it themselves! In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Image: Digital Wallet, Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It really reiterates the community’s perspective about your project and reinforces the need for it. Or there’s a second bucket that I’m really sort of anecdotally seeing a strong movement or a strong trend in the community. They’re meeting a need in the community. One of the examples I can think of here.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This remarkable cohort of 250 community builders are hosting monthly free workshops and networking events in more than 74 cities, and they're doing it entirely as volunteers. At each event, we're helping to build and sustain a self-supporting community of practice for tech-minded nonprofit staffers. Africa and Middle East.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2014

As part of Storymakers 2014, we offer a slate of interactive events including our global tweet-chat on September 4, 2014 and NetSquared meet-ups this August and September with storytelling workshops and presentations in your local community. Image 1: Campfire by Chris Zielecki. Image 2: TweetChat by FundChat.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Image: Digital Wallet, Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

It grew out of a pioneer online community in the San Francisco Bay Area called The Well , the acronym for The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. The birth of CompuMentor is described in Howard Rheingold’s The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. But lots of innovation never makes it out of one locale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. They write poems about their experiences, and when they recite them in community meetings, their neighbors are outraged, and mobilized immediately to action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

That there was this notion that the dance community is inherently political, and I thought well, not really. It's based, not just on art and politics, it's also about personal transformation and community. So I got involved in a community effort to stop that development. It's actually kind of insular and isolated. Let's be out.

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