Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It was originally published on NetSquared. Big Data and Global Development. Data Use by Citizens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The Featured Projects will be going on to the NetSquared Conference and have an opportunity to receive cash, tech and consulting resources. A Global Neighbour Network: NABUUR.com [link]. s Problems Through Social Networking Sites [link]. Global Women's Leadership Network [link]. Congrats to the list of 21!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Your NetSquared organizers are gearing up for Social Media September , a month of social media for social good -themed events. Find your local #nptech tribe and consider sharing your skills as a volunteer surgeon by joining a NetSquared Local group. August’s NetSquared Events. Washington, DC: NetSquared Meetup.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. Houston, Texas: NetSquared Houston: Storymakers 2017! Houston, Texas: NetSquared Houston.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2012

In celebration of the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft announced the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest in partnership with NetSquared. Apps to Address Real-World Problems. If you need inspiration on issues your app can address, visit the TechSoup Global Hacker Helper. Here are some tips.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems. Organizations are empowering youth to develop their own mobile apps to solve problems at their schools, in their communities, and to help the greater good. Apps Made by Youth.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. on NetSquared. The need for open data from NGOs is reiterated, while the way philanthropy has promoted the global Open Government Partnership is explained. How NGOs Are Using Data Maps to Communicate Problems. It originally appeared.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

For a taste of nptech goings-on all around the world, NetSquared Local shares community highlights from the month of May and gets its fans excited about future projects in their recent monthly roundup. Read about their inspiring work in a recent TechSoup Global interview. Do Good Data 2013 is in Chicago, Illinois this August.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

—– Over on the NetSquared platform right now we are in the midst of the 2010 FACT Social Justice Challenge. NetSquared supports the community at the intersection of technology and social impact in a few ways, including open innovation competitions. Tip #4: Be prepared to change. We’re all learning as we go!

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

Check out these resources from TechSoup Global and beyond. This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. NetSquared can help! What exactly is a hackathon for good? Want to host your own hackathon?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

No problem — our staff will help you register your organization and check your eligibility. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's NetSquared community organizer, will be meeting with fellow community organizers to discuss the challenges and rewards of growing both online and offline communities. NetSquared Birds of a Feather.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. EkoVizija is a mobile app that enables users to take pictures and report environmental problems in their community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

As ImpactMax writes so beautifully, tying individual stories to overall contextual problems and societal issues can really change policies. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Check it out!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

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. This wiki can be a first step in providing those developers with information about the problems that can benefit from their support. NetSquared can help!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

This post was authored by Vanessa Rhinesmith and originally appeared on the NetSquared blog. young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It was originally published on NetSquared. Big Data for Development.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

TechHire spans the corporate, nonprofit, government, and educational sectors and has the ambitious goal to "give Americans the opportunity they deserve, and the skills they need to be competitive in a global economy." "[Year Up] is another tool in your chest to help you solve a problem in your company."

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

As one respondent said, "The problem, always, is time. NetSquared. TechSoup Global for our partners around the world. Here are some of the trends: More short "how-to" articles : Overwhelmingly, respondents said they preferred short "how-to" articles for all topics. TechSoup Forums. Nonprofit Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The conference bag is one of of her "out-of-studio experiments" to involve poor communities in the development of simple solutions to problems of un-managed consumer waste. A different spin on the concept of mistakes and failure: " Mistakes should be considered failures if they fail to correct the problem. Don't give up.

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JANUARY 10, 2008

Unfortunately they don't have credit cards (that's a problem for some of the potential donors like the bloggers I met in Cambodia - take for example Denith ). Also on the Google Alert, I discovered that Britt Bravo has posted on the Netsquared Blog too. I want to thank everyone who has contributed so far. I tweeted that too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

We’ve done step 1: admitted that we have a problem. Well, as Hildy explains, we need to start driving our work with our vision of how we want the world to be, instead of what the problems are before us. There is so much talk both online and offline, from inside organizations and from outside, that “nonprofits are broken.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). You can listen to the original interview and a live recording of Freecycle's 5-minute pitch at the NetSquared Conference on the NetSquared Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! " There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Ending Global Slavery is part of an Ashoka initiative Changemakers.net. Geoff Livingston mentions it here and points to examples and blog posts about the problem in the corporate PR sector. Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. I think there is now lots of evidence to suggest that American consumers are increasingly aware of the world's problems. Most consumers in the United States, most people don't really have the time to think about those problems a lot.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. This book taps into both the dark heart and the irrepressible hope of many of the communities TechSoup Global serves. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator. The e-book was created with sponsorship from NetSquared.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2011

We do battle against huge societal problems. But we don't look at the problems and throw our hands. Twenty-four years of helping nonprofit organizations with their technology challenges and here, at TechSoup Global , we see the creativity that happens on the ground. We don't think of ourselves that way. We don’t give up.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. This book taps into both the dark heart and the irrepressible hope of many of the communities TechSoup Global serves. Elijah van der Giessen, TechSoup's Netsquared Community Organizer and Curator. The e-book was created with sponsorship from NetSquared.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

This is a cross-posted with permission from NetSquared ambassador Stephen Blyth's blog, Common Knowledge. Stephen is a NetSquared ambassador from Wellington, New Zealand and attended the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in March. Can we please get away from describing things as problem this and problem that?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If you discover that you are blacklisted, call your web and email host immediately to fix the problem. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. Global NGO Technology Report :: techreport.ngo.

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MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. They would rather opt for MTV.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

What I witnessed was time and time again women really coming to the forefront around those issues, women at the forefront of the problems and the helm of the solutions. What I do is, I write for several blogs, as she mentioned. And something started to happen for me; I started to see a trend of women stepping up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

One of the reasons I am so excited about the work I am doing with NetSquared is because I think that these new web-based tools, especially podcasts, are an incredible way for nonprofits to get the word out about their causes, especially when they are listened to through headphones. We need to immediately recognize and address this problem.

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