Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Over those three years, Nonprofit Tech for Good and PIR trained more than 60,000 NPO and NGO staff worldwide! WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. Since the release of Facebook Live , Facebook video exposure has increased 360% across everyone’s news feed. You can view the webinar archive on SlideShare.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2013

Today, however, the program has been expanded to Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom and it offers some very powerful free tools to nonprofits: Google Wallet donate button. Video annotations. Related Link: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube and Create Video Content for the Social Web.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Tactical Tech, based in the UK and India, has published The Quick ‘n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy to help advocates find "online services that are quick to use and easy to understand."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

As a geek who is trying to apply tech for good, it is instructive to hear the critiques. A mentor is going to have a more powerful impact over somebody than YouTube videos. People who start novel organizations like Ashesi University in Ghana, Technology Access Foundation in Seattle, and Shanti Bhavan (a boarding school) in India.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The questions, and listening back to how I responded (as painful as it may be to listen/watch yourself on video!), I also think that examining this idea in a place where the 3 areas create a very clear Venn Diagram, like India, invites a wide range of voices to the conversation. Find out more about the conference here.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. Please visit the site to view this video). The Winners in Their Own Words.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Our team presented at multiple sessions at the recent RightsCon Silicon Valley conference , which brought together human rights defenders, security experts, and tech executives.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Naples, Florida: #Storymakers 2017: Creating Images and Video with Adobe Spark. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston: Creating a 90-Day Online Marketing Plan for Your Nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2014

The high Internet growth countries are now India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico, and Philippines. Mobile: we’re watching much more of our video (nearly 25%) now on our smartphones. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 billion people are now using the Internet worldwide, 618 million of them are in China.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Tactical Tech, based in the UK and India, has published The Quick 'n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy to help advocates find "online services that are quick to use and easy to understand."

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Check out our new website featuring a video of Guy Kawasaki’s keynote speech in San Francisco, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter to stay tuned, and here’s our schedule of upcoming events: Toronto, Ontario – June 26. New Delhi, India – December TBA. Chicago, IL – September 19.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I hope you'll pardon me if I start with a green tech thing. These are the people behind the great nonprofit Story of Stuff animated environmental videos. I thought it might be fun to recount a perfectly random cross-section of folks who came by chat at the TechSoup booth on a Tuesday at the SOCAP event. SeaWave Battery. Free Range.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. China, India, and most of Europe combined -- but another thing entirely to show it. China, India, and most of Europe combined -- but another thing entirely to show it. Read more posts on our blog. "Farmville is so huge!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. Although video is popular issues like bandwidth speed, which affect many communities, photo may be the best storytelling option.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

He forecasts that in a couple of years smartphones will become powerful enough to run a full desktop operating system that can do virtually everything a computer can do, including photo editing and high definition video conferencing. The proto example is the Motorola Atrix smartphone.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe’s software donation programs through TechSoup help organizations design powerful print collateral, create video accounts of their successes, build their web presence, and more. See how nonprofits like yours are benefiting from their donated products and services, and creating professional-quality videos.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. Dara Westling.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

For those nonprofits working on sustainable development issues - NextDrop uses mobile technology to monitor and improve water flow in urban India and subsequent sustainable development. Bangalore and Pune, India Greenpeace got 937 text backs and 149 new supporters. has found that in India upon achieving a critical penetration rate of.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

For example, in 2014 WOD for Water raised $212,174 around a CrossFit workout event to bring clean water to villages in India, Cambodia, and south Sudan. Pictures, videos, and text to help share your story, and one clear ask. People often organize into teams to participate and raise funds, and physical action is required. Find a hero.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Please visit the site to view this video). Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. You can watch the full presentation (she's a great speaker - I recommend watching it!), or read on for a recap. Choose Your Message. Their work is very different in each of these locations.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. You can share PDFs, you can share presentations, you can share pictures, you can share videos, links, you can share your location and they’re all stored in your WhatsApp chat. So I have used WhatsApp to connect with people that are not tech-savvy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2014

Creating visual content, such as branded images, infographics, and video. Written by Heather Mansfield , principal blogger at Nonprofit Tech for Good, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide is a follow-up publication of the bestselling Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Wildlife SOS – India.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. DoGooder Video Award Winners. The World Wide Web Turns 25.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2012

We were impressed with the quality of the photo slideshows and videos, and all the hard work that went into them. First Place Video. Please visit the site to view this video). Please visit the site to view this video). Please visit the site to view this video). Please visit the site to view this video).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

I myself was also almost a human trafficking victim for the purpose of forced marriage in India. Aashika admits to being “a big tech-enthusiast by hobby” and she “found that the anti-slavery movement was lacking in terms of participation in this field, as well as innovation.” Here is really where the innovative thinking began.

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Care2

DECEMBER 3, 2011

People are fickle when it comes to tech. One in four Americans watches a video on YouTube everyday. If Facebook were a country, it would rank at third most populated country after China and India. You know the old saying, what goes up, must come down? Will that be the case with social media? Is social media that hot potato?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. And finally, VidCaster for HootSuite allows you to view, share, and measure analytics on your videos so you can better tell your nonprofit’s story.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Another example, Give India , shows off the community features provided by a Causes page. The JCCCNC continues to maintain their page with bulletins, posts, and videos of donations in action. Video content, copy, calls to action. I want a video of my hundred dollars in action. Featured Project Emails. Pretty significant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. Cool Factor : Personal PSAs , 24 Hours, and Collaboration. Cool Factor : Cost Effective. Wide Reaching. Full Approach.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Now, here's the latest.

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