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Cool Apps Roundup: Green Apps

Tech Soup

This inaugural post will cover a variety of green or environmental apps that are already out there. In my companion blog post on Why Apps Are Green , I talked about how apps permit the use of lighter IT infrastructure like mobile phones to accomplish things we previously used to do just on PCs. searches for green businesses near you.

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The Internet Domain.NGO Should Serve Best Interests of Nonprofits Worldwide: Sign An Online Letter of Support

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Soon,ECO,GREEN, and.NGO, among countless others, will be introduced into our lexicon, expanding our surfing – and outreach – options in infinitely new ways. Here’s where you – my fellow NGOs and.ORG registrants – come in. As a fellow not-for-profit, we understand the needs and wants of the NGO community.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Disaster relief is one of the primary activities of the NGO sector, and crowdsourced volunteer digital disaster work is an important and expanding part of it.

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How Security Breaches Really Happen at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

" Monochrome green code scrolls across his screen, and an unnecessarily large "Transfer Status" window shows stolen data in the process of being transferred. The well-publicized attacks on Target , Community Health Systems , and Home Depot recently were the first type.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. Seventy percent of Vietnamese people live outside of the cities.

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10 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS). According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). On Mobile: 8) Use a social sharing app.

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What's So Scary about Cloud Security?

Tech Soup

argues that cloud-based services are likely to be safer and more secure than most in-house nonprofit computer systems. "I’m as big an advocate of a good firewall and a reputable anti-virus/spam package on all your systems as the next person. but all over the world. Richard Cooper of Charity Technology Trust (CTT) in the U.K.

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