article thumbnail

Harnessing Office 365 to Send Every Child to Preschool

Tech Soup

OvidiuRo's story began in 2001, when Maria Gheorghiu and Leslie Hawke were helping poor women from the ghettos of Bacau, a small city in Romania. Thanks to a USAID grant, the two were able to start helping poor kids attend school and meanwhile support their mothers in getting jobs so they wouldn't be forced to beg.

Romania 36
article thumbnail

Harnessing Office 365 to Send Every Child to Preschool

Tech Soup

OvidiuRo's story began in 2001, when Maria Gheorghiu and Leslie Hawke were helping poor women from the ghettos of Bacau, a small city in Romania. Thanks to a USAID grant, the two were able to start helping poor kids attend school and meanwhile support their mothers in getting jobs so they wouldn't be forced to beg.

Romania 36
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Community-Building Tweet Chat on July 17: Contests and Challenges

Tech Soup

Our annual Digital Storytelling Challenge , Restart Romania , and NetSquared challenges are just a few examples of how we get our community members engaged at multiple levels. Here at TechSoup, we know that contests and challenges are an excellent way to marshal the enthusiasm and talent of our community.

Contest 57
article thumbnail

Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s Pulse

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We talk about finding the right tool for the data collection job and tools come in three different categories: analytics tools, content analysis, and surveys. In the book, we avoid talking about specific tools because they change so fast and new ones appear almost daily.

Analytics 106
article thumbnail

Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup

We got to know Charles Brennick much better in the course of working together on a Microsoft IT equipment donation to NGOs in Romania a couple of years ago. The quality control systems that Charles and his team have created so that people who are learning on the job can produce grade-A refurbished equipment is pretty astonishing.

article thumbnail

NCVO and TAG Conference Presentations and Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The week before I went from Boston to Miami to Romania and flew back to Boston via Miami to present at the TAG Conference. The day before I had come in from Romania and attended the plenary session which provided an excellent primer and audience research. As a geekily recursive replay of our " who is video blogging whom ?",

Tag 50
article thumbnail

Good Ram Gone Bad On My Dell Desktop: OMG

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm presenting and doing a workshop in Romania and then will be flying back to Boston via Miami to present at the Technology Affinity Group (Foundation IT folks) Conference. I'm going to see if Lionel does as good a job at customer service as Frank does. I don't need this to happen to me.

Romania 50