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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Chris Worman, senior director of alliances and community engagement at TechSoup, founded TechSoup Romania and was heavily involved in ReStart Romania and TechSoup's other open community challenges. For example, they profiled a father who was fighting to get speed bumps put in his neighborhood. Video : TechSoup Romania.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 1-12

Tech Soup

Guest blogger Grant Howe, VP of research and development for Sage North America's nonprofit solutions, kicks off a series of posts about providing great IT leadership. Michael offers some suggestions for developing Your Tech Game Plan for 2012. Michael offers some suggestions for developing Your Tech Game Plan for 2012.

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Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s Pulse

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All of these platforms have been profiled at our recent Social Media for Nonprofits conferences, which is about to produce its final US program of the year in Seattle on 11/5, before we head to New Delhi on December 5, and then back to New York City, Silicon Valley, Vancouver, plus most other major US markets in 2013.

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Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s Pulse

Tech Soup

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S. markets.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. The project invited developers to create apps for social good in several categories including nutrition, health care, emergency response, and more. Accessibility. This is technology for good news from India.

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Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, some of new Romanian friends wanted to contribute, but couldn't because Romania wasn't on the list of accepted credit cards. I spent less time chasing after people who were not in my network who may have a lot of influence and asking them to blog, post on their Facebook profile or retweet.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. You can also link a Pinterest account to a Facebook or Twitter profile. Health Center.

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