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Blockchain for Impact: Blockchain Revolution Global Event Wrap-Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Everledger process is also being used for things like recovering rare earth minerals (cobalt, lithium) from batteries, in the sustainability space. She is the CEO and principal of the social enterprise consultancy, Good Plus Tech , with a focus on leveraging emerging technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence.

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

I hope you'll pardon me if I start with a green tech thing. She said that it generates more electricity at a lower cost than lead-acid and lithium ion batteries. I thought it might be fun to recount a perfectly random cross-section of folks who came by chat at the TechSoup booth on a Tuesday at the SOCAP event. SeaWave Battery.

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Mobile, Voice-Operated Everything, and Security, Oh My! Top Nonprofit Tech for 2016

Tech Soup

Lithium ion battery failures were big again this past year. Lithium ion batteries will continue to power our mobile devices — and continue to catch fire now and then, but not that often. Now the perpetual horror story of nonprofit tech and all of IT for that matter. He is an unsung hero of nonprofit tech no longer.

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iFixit’s Basic Phone Repairs that Most of Us Can Do

Tech Soup

In the last 10 years, iron ore production has increased by 180%, cobalt by 165%, and lithium by 125%. If you’re stuck, need help troubleshooting, or need advice about a repair, just ask the iFixit community. The demand for quicker, thinner gadgets has also increased the demand for raw materials. Send Us Your Repair Information!

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What’s in your social media measurement tool box and why?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?” Kami Huyse , Zoetica, points to Lithium , a monitoring and measurement tool. Debra Askanase , Community Organizer 2.0,

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