Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2017

Like any nonprofit, we like to take advantage of the product donations that are on offer for charities, churches, foundations, and libraries. We needed a simple and easy-to-use solution to share PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, photos, and videos within and outside the organization. Getting Control of Our Images.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2012

TechSoup is partnering with the International City/County Management Association ( ICMA ), WebJunction , and the Institute of Museum and Library Services ( IMLS ) on a project to help build digitally inclusive communities. Photo: Alyson Hurt. What successes or challenges have you already encountered?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2012

TechSoup is partnering with the International City/County Management Association ( ICMA ), WebJunction , and the Institute of Museum and Library Services ( IMLS ) to help build digitally inclusive communities. Photo: woodleywonderworks. Please take 15 minutes to share your input on our digital inclusion survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Improve internal information systems. Create a leadership library of nonprofit books for staff to check out and read. Mission moments – photos, videos, make them visible. Here’s the list: Function. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Responsive tech support.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Gentle Carousel also has a literacy program called Reading Is Magic that brings the horses into schools, libraries, and at-risk youth programs. The photo of Faith with Magic along with her story has 5,302 likes, 1,007 shares, and 1,948 comments as of this writing. Helena Library). Tell a Story. Other Animals to Learn From.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

There has been some interesting mobile-related legislation news as of late that affects some nonprofits, charities, public libraries, and social sector organizations. TechSoup Global staff weighed in on what the FCC ruling means for both nonprofits and public libraries. Do you work with international constituents, volunteers, or staff?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2012

More nonprofits and libraries are using mobile technologies to educate, activate, and engage audiences and constituencies of all shapes and sizes. As nonprofits and libraries begin to make concerted efforts in baking concrete mobile strategies into their outfits, we here at TechSoup want to be there to encourage, assist, and capture.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Candice has a masters degree in library and information science and is Transition Projects’ first formal IT person. Aside from some of them being used by our staff for internal organization functionality, some of them are used by our program partners. The public library also utilizes the lab to provide a computer training class.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I Love Libraries Mission: "Friends of I Love Libraries was created to provide a means for library advocates to strengthen grassroots efforts in support of America’s libraries. Women for Women International blog What are 13 causes you'd give to if you won the lottery? Photo of Dora the Cat by Me.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2010

In addition, they are leveraging their synergies to enhance their product pipeline in the near future, bring the best features from cloud-based and on-premise implementations (some of which we hope to see available for qualified nonprofits and libraries at TechSoup.). Photo: chotda.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Childreach International serves a large network of international partners in work that involves a great deal of organization and coordination. Our Local Impact Map.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For many, blockchain is synonymous with Bitcoin—but its potential for international development goes far beyond cryptocurrency. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Featured Photo: Business School for rural women in India by Mann Deshi Foundation. Blockchain to combat corruption.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

For March 8, International Women’s Day, ask your supporters about the women in their lives that inspire them. Local libraries may also be open hosting egg-hunters for a good cause. Have an intern who’s a lit major? #snapcracklepop Click To Tweet. Donate on Her Behalf (March 8). Families want to have fun too!

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

In addition to monitoring how our European donors are using this new feature, we plan to continue to test the potential for enabling additional international currencies throughout 2019 and into the future. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Want more tips like this?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Members, who are incentivized to share for a chance to win prizes, can share their stories via video, photo, or text. Goldman relied on user-generated content for Imagining Ourselves at the International Museum of Women. Submissions for the exhibit included nearly 3,000 videos, photos, paintings, poems, stories, and essays.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2009

We thought the innovative work created by the winners and runners up was so inspirational, that they should be shared more broadly and could perhaps be a muse for other nonprofits and libraries. This week, we are featuring the Alliance for Tompotika Conservation (AlTo), the winner of the Environment category in the print and photo category.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. The Storymakers Campaign 2014 empowers nonprofits, libraries, and charities with the tools and training to tell their stories, get noticed, and make an impact. In previous years, we called it our Digital Storytelling Challenge.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. Our Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) supplies warrantied refurbished laptop and desktop computers to nonprofits and public libraries. Photo courtesy of Flickr user lungstruck.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. One of ARC’s RecTech Coalition programs wanted a Multipoint Server lab in their Chinatown International District Community Center. Image: Young Pham of ARC, photo by Charles Brennick.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Now, thanks to Huddle, nonprofits and libraries can effectively manage their projects, content, and collaboration, both internally and externally. Each person in your organization — and even outside vendors and contractors — can be assigned a profile, complete with contact information and a photo.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured IT to further their missions. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home. By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Photo by Metro Library and Archive. I try to do it monthly, but maybe your organization add this to your intern's work tasks. Photo Views. Tagging photos. I'm working with a small group of Packard Foundation grantees on a social media lab where they are implementing different social media experiments. Unsubscribes.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. These are now available to eligible nonprofits and libraries through TechSoup's donation program. Disabled World - International facts and statistics on disabilities and disability Issues.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. This is a communiqué on the current state of cloud adoption in TechSoup's NetSquared international community from Marc Manashil, community evangelist for NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. There are examples (see below).

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library. Think Salvation Army and their Red Kettle campaign, or Oxfam International and their catalogue of goats and other farm animals. The photo helps, too.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Additionally, you may want to record the “assets” on each page (like text, photos, videos, files), meta-data, technology issues, owners, date last updated, etc. Who needs to approve photos? Let’s say you have a library of 100,000 publications. This is your chance to get intimate with your content.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what lots of nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured-IT to further their missions. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home. Here is just a sampling of what we have collected so far. Want to share.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children. This is an international trend. Privacy and Security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. for the last five years or so). If yes, how is it going? If not, why not?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This is an astonishing technology for good in which large numbers of ordinary people analyze photos of cells cultures to identify irregular shaped cancer cell cores. also reports some news that effect libraries. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. This project aims to speed up cancer research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The internal team is led by a non-curator. Why not send us your own photos and join the discussion here at The Great Tate Mod Blog? I interviewed Jim Spadaccini and he told me that initially more people had viewed the photos in flickr versus the exhibition web site. They kept the interface simple. Over the next six months we???ll

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. Generous Giving: Online Resource Library on Islamic Philanthropy. Dara Westling. Dara has possibly the longest title at TechSoup. Additional Resources. TechSoup Resources for Foundations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines. Hold an annual fundraising event with readings and signings by local writers to benefit a literacy program at a school, nonprofit or library, or to give a grant to an aspiring local writer. Organize other local businesses.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Each year, we host a Nonprofit Digital Storytelling Challenge where nonprofits and libraries around the world submit short, digital stories about their organizations. Photo: billybicket. Web-based challenges are not a new phenomenon at TechSoup Global. Or share your comments with me here or on Twitter @MarcManashil.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. We sincerely invite your nonprofit or library tech news nominations. Social Media. Very, very cool, I must say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. But it doesn't involve baking cupcakes. They created the Popcorn For Kids Campaign.

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