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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was tremendous optimism about the value of training engineers and scientists and how that would benefit all of humanity, especially in the southern California of a century ago which was reshaped through the wonders of technology. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Technology, Data, and Indian Nonprofits: Enabling Philanthropy

Tech Soup

Technology product donations, training, and nonprofit data are all part of TechSoup Global’s offering to civil society in India. The Hunger Project India helps those affected by hunger and victimized by social suppression in six Indian states. " Technology donations have also transformed nonprofit operations.

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Outstanding Offers and New Products of 2014 (Bonus: Crossword Puzzle!)

Tech Soup

or Cary __; gas or train __ ( funding ) Answer. ” ( mobile app for hunger from TechSoup’s Caravan Studios ) Answer. For PCs, Macs, or entire networks , get up to 50 donated licenses. Record training webinars and save them as video files. Record training webinars and save them as video files.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fight Hunger shares the results and learnings from its Second Life fundraising event "Walk the World." Katya Andresen points us to " Story Telling As Best Practice " online free training with Andy Goodman. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. without leaving the virtual world!

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. has made it easy for content creators to share or protect their work by developing flexible and voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright licenses for creative works. Here's how the Creative Commons licenses work.

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Choosing the Right Free Technology in 5 Easy Steps

Tech Soup

But there's a good chance that you'll need to purchase additional licenses or make customizations to meet your needs or solve your specific problem. Create a Training and Adoption Strategy. A training and adoption strategy can help alleviate this resistance and give everyone involved a clear plan for going forward.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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