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TechSoup Global and Microsoft at NGO Connection Day Vietnam

Tech Soup

This year, Microsoft Community Affairs hosted its first ever Vietnam event in Hanoi on Tuesday, with the theme of "Unleashing Technology to Improve Economic and Social Development.". As with other NGOs around the world, the challenges faced by the ones in Vietnam are very similar.

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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup

And presenting the Lytro Camera for best photo entry is Lisa Rose, executive director at PhotoPhilanthropy. She studied the German, Czech, and Spanish languages and has lived and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia, including Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand.

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

and the cultural resistance to entering Vietnam in 1965, we saw how Americans began to organize and work together to tackle specific issues with a narrow focus. that fits certain requirements is a “private foundation,” meaning they have a principal fund managed by their own trustees or directors. Online giving generated $2.1

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Meet Michaela Hackner: BlogHer and Nonprofit Techie

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You are working in technology for a nonprofit, what did you did study in school? I studied at Penn State University, working towards a self-designed major in web and multimedia design (when it was just basic HTML and Macromedia Director). My long-term goal was to use technology to roll-out international development programs.

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

Have Fun - Do Good

When I sat down to talk with the co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond, in early March, they had literally just returned from the West African Woman and Water Training in Ghana. We do that by coordinating training, technology, and advocacy support. The problem that we are addressing is a great one.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

By Nam-ho Park, Director, Mobile Service, Forum One. I keep on telling my story of how I moved between the East and West, between physical environments (architecture, urban design) and virtual (web and mobile development and strategy), between technology and the humanities. At one time, I would have referred to this as being nomadic.

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Gen Next on the Board

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They in turn were perplexed by those formed by the Vietnam War and “drugs, sex and rock and roll,” etc. Not only the ability to utilize new technologies, but the ability to operate in an environment where business-like “outcomes” thinking is becoming the norm. They are not waiting “until their time comes.”.

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