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Mapping for Impact: This Week's Free TechSoup Webinar

Tech Soup

Perhaps some organizations make it look simple, but behind the scenes there may be some sophisticated Esri tools that map disease outbreaks and aid distribution. Direct Relief International was involved in the Haitian earthquake in 2010 and the Japan earthquake in 2011, providing aid to thousands.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. Childreach International serves a large network of international partners in work that involves a great deal of organization and coordination.

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How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

One of the scenarios where it's especially important to be able to handle unusually high amounts of traffic is after a disaster, which is why Second Harvest Japan decided to host its Emergency Response Portal in the cloud. TechSoup Japan Disaster Relief Program Launches to Assist Local NGOs.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

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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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

Tech Soup

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Inspiring Leaders to Raise Money Joyfully. London, United Kingdom: Effective Data Mapping for Charities. Tokyo, Japan: #NPOxITは仕事になるのか? The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. Europe and UK.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So do you see in this map, WhatsApp is a top social messaging app in the world. Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.” So more than 50% of the Latinx community uses it and there’s more than 29 million messages sent on WhatsApp per minute.