Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

You've heard of the Incredible Hulk and Green Lantern. But you've probably never heard of this green superhero. Each year the International Computer Refurbisher Summit awards a lifetime achievement award in my name (it's a long story on how that came to be). This year the award went to Sean Nicholson. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Using the internet and social media as a vehicle to tell stories is an approachable, inexpensive, and effective way to engage your audience (Check out NTEN's social media and storytelling web seminars series for the juicy details.) Tell your story from the roots up. Tell a good story, but don't forget to bring in new voices.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Their stories also highlight how important having the right technology is to accomplishing this important work.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ted Fickes, Electronic Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society (Central Rockies Regional Office) In September, 2008, Green for All , 1Sky and the We Campaign organized a national day of action -- Green Jobs Now -- to demand progress on green jobs and a green economy.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

We had the privilege of having four panelists who each told a story demonstrating how the social web had empowered communities around social causes. Amy Skoczlas Cole from eBay explained how a grassroots employee effort for office-wide green initiatives grew to an online movement around the environmental impact of reused goods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Before that, we’d heard stories of people carrying dog-eared copies of an old – outdated – paper pocket guide. We also designed the app so it doesn’t rely on an internet connection, since that romantic little spot by the beach might have lousy reception. The Seafood Watch app has been downloaded by more than 480,000 people.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Mojave Basin Youth Corps was another organization that impressed us with their video story , winning them an Honorable Mention in the Digital Storytelling Challenge. Tags: Multimedia & Graphics Social Networking Spotlight Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 What organization do you work for and where are you located?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Green Technology. It allows charities to get to your applications and files from virtually anywhere there is Internet on many kinds of devices - PCs, Macs, and mobile devices of various kinds. Another cloud story that has caught my attention this year are the welcome escalations of free cloud storage. Free Cloud Storage.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Kisumu City, Kenya: Netsquared Safer Internet 2017: Be the Change; Unite for a Better Internet. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? The e-mail is updated with a new story each month to keep the content and news fresh.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. The library ordered 60 Dell refurbished desktop computers from TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) to provide its patrons with Internet access. HART for Animals.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. The processing power of our mobile phones roughly doubles every 18 months as does storage capacity, as do Internet speeds with the advent of faster 4G and 4G LTE mobile networks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story). The Internet makes this so easy now, but what's even more fun is to step away from the computer and go out and find artists where they work, live and exhibit.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2015

It needed real Internet networking equipment. Before this, if an Internet connection went down, tough luck. " This story was written by Jim Lynch, director of green technology at TechSoup. Cisco switches and wireless access points provided the connectivity the organization needed. It does several things.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's one of the great untold stories of nonprofit enterprise. It's the story of one person, founder Yvette Marrin, working with a disabled little girl and achieving major breakthroughs using a computer. The Largest Minority in the World. People with disabilities are one of the largest minorities in the U.S. Touch the Future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." And organizations need to shift their view on how to use technology/the internet to accomplish things (and especially do more than just raise money).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

How Green Is RCI? One of their most current philanthropic projects is Connect 2 Compete , which in a big new digital inclusion program that aims to provide a PC and broadband Internet in every U.S. All of our RCI-refurbished PCs come with the Windows 7 operating system, and all come with Office 2007. Using the U.S.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Kids around the country received an early and much-needed gift this December in the form of — you guessed it — broccoli and green beans. The movement’s site is a community of young people who share their stories, can access toolkits to transform their schools, and can lead or host panel discussions and forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

One part included having people stand if they had a formal or informal communications plan/strategy (half the room) -and then had them sit down in waves to determine formal communications, Internet strategy, and social strategy. There were only a handful of people who had a formal communications plan with a social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He selected some definitions from the Internet. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. Internet is difficult to stop. Through the Internet, they learned about the Rising Voices Grant. They replaced the organization. What is Web 2.0 Conclusion.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Care2 provides visitors to their site green-living advice and the opportunity to act on behalf of the causes they care most about. The Care2 News Network allows users to submit news stories and vote for content that should be featured more prominently.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook. Recycling.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Finally, for your website to be compatible with the growing number of devices that it is likely to be viewed on in the coming decades – personal computers, smartphones, Smart TVs and appliances, and internet-connected mirrors and car dashboards, ensure that your website utilizes responsive design. On Mobile: 8) Use a social sharing app.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

Having managed adult volunteers to work with the young people in Streetside Stories workshops for many years, I know what a difference adult tutors and mentors can make in a young person's life and I appreciate Daniel's creating an online space for them to nework and share experiences. We call it the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Address: 800 W.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

You Don’t Need Just a Website, You Need the Web Designed by Derek Low | Network for Good powered by Groundspring Fundraising Track - Franciscan B Every nonprofit needs a website but a website can’t be your only Internet presence. And the best way to do that is to connect them your organization by telling them a story.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I’m going to start sipping my green tea, like you said. And I learned a lot about fundraising before the internet, when you just dialed for dollars and sent mailings and had a lot of house parties. . So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. ” Okay.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

What : This meeting is for for people at orgs who have been using social media for several years and will be a forum to exchange advanced level tips and stories, as well as share what’s worked and what hasn’t. Open Data Storytelling: Learn how to best tell your organization’s story. Local Community Organizers (#localco).

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Guest Post Written By: Victoria Greene. They counteract this by telling the stories of people both past and present who have connections with the American Red Cross. Don’t be afraid to share people’s stories because it will make your organization feel a lot more friendly and open. 5 NONPROFITS WINNING AT SOCIAL MEDIA.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

In December I wrote a book review of Monique and the Mango Rains , the story of a Peace Corps worker's two years working with a midwife in Mali. Since I live in Sikoro, much of this is conducted with an INFERNALLY slow internet connection on a computer with a French keyboard running off of a bus battery. mali health NGO empowerment

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Baldrick’s Foundation shares expert story-telling advice. Creating share-worthy content means understanding your audience and the story they want to tell. Twitter and Facebook serve different functions, but two things should always be consistent: your ask and your story. bonus: she includes video and slides}.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Perhaps I can do some justice to the future in the way that most parties unfold: by telling a few stories. The Dartmouth Green. One was seeing two coeds standing on either side of the road at the Dartmouth Green talking on a cell phone to each other as I walked by. For most of the world, the Internet is the cell phone.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. Green IT: Glad Tidings from Haiti. There's more going on as well in sustainable green IT. And sometimes the easiest way to tell your organization’s story is, well, by actually telling it.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

He started out as a poet, started messing around on the internet with digital media, and launched into a series of highly unusual interactive projects. When I lived in Bowling Green, the museums in Ohio used to bother me with exhibitions like The Art of Star Wars. Or do you think it can hold up on its own?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

However, story after story pointed to pressures from donors for nonprofits to invest as little money as possible in administration and fundraising. In their quick-takes on "making smart donations," media stories frequently tell donors to pick the charity that spends the least on administration and fundraising.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Right now he gets his green fix by tending to an aquarium and houseplants. She's been hooked ever since.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog – or that your highly effective advocacy campaign is run by teenagers. Advocacy organizations can and should help when they can, but don’t try to cover genuine shoots of green with a carpet of astroturf. Of course, Parkland isn’t the only example of this new reality.

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