Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Los Angeles, California: Muslims in Tech. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Tech Entrepreneurs Mastermind. Los Angeles, CA: WordPress for Nonprofits — Tech Surgery.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform. And if you are not tech savvy, as is the case for most people who use these platforms, you will get frustrated sometimes trying to use them. Next, you need a site map.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Green Gifts by the Natural Resources Defense Council: From Green Energy Boosts to Buffalo Babysitting gifts, the NRDC has a launched a new Green Gifts Online Catalog featuring over 40 gifts that help protect the environment and wildlife. Purchase Green Gifts ]. A great holiday gift for travelers! Adopt an Acre ].

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Map out on paper (or use OmniGraffle or Visio like I did) how each of your audiences move through your organization, from first contact to the desired action they should take. Draw a green line where information is flowing smoothly. Have you ever mapped out data flow on paper like Judi?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2011

We want to offer our congratulations to the winners: the folks at Open Green Map! Open Green Map is a social mapping tool for anyone who loves ecology and embraces green living. Read more about the winner and the Net2 All-Star Invitational on the NetSquared blog , and check out the winning video here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Connecting to the Internet Digital Divide GreenTech International Networks Green IT WiFi tsgreentechnology BRCK Ushahidi'

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Schedule tech checks with each of your guest speakers once they are confirmed. Monitor presenters’ internet connections during the tech check. “ If your event has multiple remote guest speakers, have a staff member dedicated to run a green room (preparation room). . Map Out Your Email Strategy in Advance.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

We have dozens of donated and discounted green products on TechSoup and from time to time, we like to have a deeper look at our green product donor companies. Dangermond developed the GIS mapping tools that became the basis of ESRI's software as a researcher at Harvard's computer graphics lab.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It’s time to get face-to-face with your nonprofit tech friends! Our goal is to help each other solve our tech challenges, find a tribe of people who share our passions, and have a ridiculously good time while we’re at it! Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. November’s Net2Local Events.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For example, if someone might be in a worried state while browsing your site, intense colors like red or orange won’t help them; it would be better to choose calming colors like blues and greens. If you offer many different paths on your site, a good strategy is to let users pick their own way forward. 2) Women’s Funding Network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

The second one is the Localization Mapping Project that shows on a GIS map all the different localization projects happening in the nine county region of the Bay Area as a tool that other people can plug into. Also, it connects the dots with similar projects happening, so people can see where they are on the map.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways June PDH Lunch — Incorporating Green Infrastructure.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Get answers to your tech challenges at a NetSquared meetup (see list below). Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Wellington, New Zealand: Going green with social media - #net2welly Social Media Sept (1 of 3). Get nonprofit tech highlights from San Francisco from their monthly newsletter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

At its most basic level, you photograph the dump and post a pin on a global Trash Map. In Romania, Let’s Do It: [link] people used TrashOut to map all illegal dumps and mapped also dead horse: https://www.trashout.me/illegal-dump/6599659631935488. apps environment mobile phone green technology tsmobiletechnology'

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Naples, FL: NFN4Good Tech Club for SWFL. Baltimore, MD: September Tech & Soc Change Baltimore Meetup: Hands-On HTML & CSS. Wellington, New Zealand: Going green with social media - #net2welly Social Media Sept (1 of 3). Monday, September 2. Tuesday, September 3.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

As of January 25, there are 40,000 nonprofit members attending free tech networking events and workshops in 75 cities. As an event host, you build your reputation, develop new tech skills, and give back to your community. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Tech Entrepreneurs Mastermind. Miami: 4,000 potential members.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

We had just finished perusing an excellent exhibit, “Places and Spaces,” pouring over a complex map of 1.3 We looked at the museum map on the wall. There’s the “I can’t read the map” problem. Right now, in most museums, I have to look at the map/aggregate names and guess where those experiences might lie. million nodes.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Appearing as her super hero alter ego, complete with green cape, Super Green, Kroll spoke about how online activity can be used to inspire offline action. For those who could not attend and see Super Green in action, video from the meetup is available, courtesy of TechSoup’s own Interactive Producer Evonne Heyning, here.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

Last year, I moderated a panel at Women in Green in Pasadena, CA. Map your network. Once you know the business goals you are trying to achieve, map your network. Mapping your whole network is important. Too Few Women in Tech? This is because diversity is more than an ethical issue. Hire diverse staff! Blame Sexism.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

AND, it's the green thing to do. Disruptive Technology #3: Energy & Green IT. The EU is currently coming up with regulations for tech and power consumption. Outside of the actual tech, you will also need to pay closer attention to policies. Is it OK to put client home address information into a public mapping website?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 2, 2010

It's like placing a thumbtack on a virtual GPS map so everyone knows where you are and where you have been. These applications have turned into the high tech version of the business card that gets hole punched at the bakery cash register every time you buy a kolache. Let me know what you think!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. It's an online collaborative mapping tool. You import mindmap maps into it and can be useful for notetaking in real time on conference calls. Green Technology. What are your summer vacation plans? tools to adopt. has been around for a while.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

The green, yellow, and red colors allow consumers to immediately view a product's level of concern in each of the categories. candidate at University of Pittsburgh, demonstrated FracTracker , an app that maps impacts of oil and gas extraction sites through crowdsourcing. Both apps are free and downloadable for iOS and Android.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. Come play with some cool new tech tools at the Microsoft booth (free drink tickets)!

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. Come play with some cool new tech tools at the Microsoft booth (free drink tickets)!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job. More TechSoup Global Resources: The TechSoup Global Local Impact Map for international success stories. She immediately got to work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

It can also, map how the world changes through time and space like the animated layer created by Declan Butler, a senior reporter at Nature magazine, to show the spread of reported cases of avian flu in animals and people. Google Earth Outreach nonprofit mapping nptech net2 activism Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For nonprofits that offer tons of classes and/or performances, Neon CRM’s event builder has built-in templates for both, with assigned instructors for classes and seat mapping for live performances. Little Green Light Little Green Light offers donor management with event planning and ticketing features.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Drew is a MAP Sustainable Energy Fellow. It is looking for people in nonprofits and libraries that have servers and who would be willing to do a short interview with Drew Bennett of NRDC sometime in May to tell your story. This is a guest blog post by Drew Bennett of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

Some people use a higher-tech logging system by tracking the items online to see who has found them and where they’ve gone. Each student would create a fist-sized sculpture piece (of recycled or renewable materials; the theme was "green") and the sculpture would get a Travel Bug tag with a unique serial number.

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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. I want to tell you about Nonprofit Tech For Good , a great nonprofit technology news resource. Green IT: Glad Tidings from Haiti. There's more going on as well in sustainable green IT. Nonprofit Tech for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Most of this follows what we provided for attendees as our “conference tech tools”. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Gone Green(er). I resisted using the title of “report card”. Previously, On NMC….

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade. The Tech's system is barely better in what is provided , offering a glimpse into the actual exhibits you visited and the content (mostly photos) you took onsite.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So do you see in this map, WhatsApp is a top social messaging app in the world. all the green is WhatsApp. So I have used WhatsApp to connect with people that are not tech-savvy. So you don’t need to be tech-savvy to use WhatsApp. We love them, but maybe sometimes not as tech-savvy. So this is. So to recap.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

During the panel “What Effect Will the New Administration’s Use of Tech Have on Congress?” Enewsletters Still Work Enewsletters are still a valuable form of communications for most organizations. We start with the idea of creating an ecosystem for our clients.

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