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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. Leonard Library. Using tweets' GPS, the database can then track where the rack is. freespace], San Francisco. The concept is that people can tweet the @bicyclerack Twitter account.

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Level Up and Change the World: Gamification Apps

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Walk2Help tracks the distance you've walked using the built-in GPS on your phone and converts it into points. SF Heroes is a disaster preparedness iPhone app for the San Francisco area created for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management. Additional Resources.

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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

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The Summit welcomed some of the most impressive individuals and organizations in the nonprofit sector, including Boys & Girls Clubs of America , Mary’s Meals, World Central Kitchen, the Ford Foundation, Greenpeace, Save the Children, and more to speak at the event’s global mainstage, in breakout sessions, and on thought leadership panels. .

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Technology for Resilience: The Future of Disaster Relief

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Disaster preparedness is something every nonprofit and public library needs to be on top of — whether you deal with disaster relief directly or not. The Red Cross is holding global workshops that bring together tech and nonprofit communities to explore how new technologies can be adopted for disaster relief. 3D printing.

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Good News! Updates to the Microsoft Software Donation Program

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TechSoup used to distribute software donations to worthy nonprofit organizations from the basement of a San Francisco Victorian. More than10 years later, TechSoup Global has moved on from that basement, but Microsoft software donations are still mainstays of the TechSoup program. And it’s a good thing!

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. • Tracking technology (like GPS) • Translation tools. also reports some news that effect libraries. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust.

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Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content

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Then, your "data library" can be sorted, searched, and filtered just like your publication library. Maps, for example, are a global contextualizer -- everyone can personally relate to mapped data. I'm looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco. Make it portable. Feed your raw data to world.

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