Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

In actuality, hackathons are events where ideas are hatched and technology needs are met — making them excellent opportunities for nonprofits, charities, and libraries! The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2012

TechSoup for Libraries program manager Sarah Washburn calls this trifecta of community-building "the virtuous circle," and she'll be chatting about them online this month. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

The conversation will focus on the power of data and how it can be used to achieve the objectives of nonprofits, libraries, and other social benefit organizations. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Join us on Twitter or on TweetChat.com using the hashtag #tsdata.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management. Simple brochureware websites.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The TechSoup admin fee for eligible nonprofits and libraries is $40.00. It is currently available for nonprofits and libraries at an admin fee of $265 plus $9 per user license. Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. TechSoup for Libraries. Social media is a powerful tool for libraries as well. TechSoup Canada.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful. Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

At TechSoup, we know that many nonprofits and libraries serve Spanish-speaking communities in everything from teaching English as a second language, to financial and educational services, to local family- and health-related programs. Simple wiki services to foster collaboration across locations and countries.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. engage audiences can be overwhelming to nonprofit and library. organizations. professionals.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2011

We've had dispatches from TechSoup's global partners in seven countries about how the cloud is changing the way nonprofits, public libraries, and NGOs work. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Tweet them to @TechSoup and include the hashtag #npcloud.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

He'll be on Twitter to answer your questions and share some insider insight into all the latest Office features and how they will help your nonprofit, library, charity, or foundation. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. How to Participate. About Doug Thomas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

Altimeter Group has a good collection (although mostly corporate) on its wiki. Charlene Li's Wiki of social Media Policies. The social media policy tool helps you with part of the of step 1. . I think it is also very useful to review other organization's policies. ASHA (nonprofit) social media guidelines. IBM Social Computing Policy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Are you a nonprofit or library with questions about data? In this event we will address what kind of data is relevant for your specific nonprofit or library. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Join TechSoup and SAP on October 19 at 10 a.m.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We surveyed the TechSoup community to learn more about the TechSoup resources they're currently using, the topics they'd like to learn about, and how TechSoup can best help them learn about nonprofit and library technology. Your feedback and ideas will help us improve and expand our learning resources for nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

While both are important to your nonprofit, charity, cause, or library, both together just might be its secret weapon. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Digital storytelling is everywhere these days. Join us on Tuesday, April 9, at 10:00 a.m. About Matthew Scharpnick.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Learn how to maximize the reach of your nonprofit or library's posts to Facebook. TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki is designed to be a starting place for organizations just getting started on social media. TechSoup for Libraries. Social media is a powerful tool for libraries as well. TechSoup Canada.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

For schools and libraries that offer Internet as well as internal. Attention: Schools, Libraries and Other Educational Institutions. TechSoup’s broadband wiki also has some great resources about developing tools, policies and resources for your IT infrastructure. and viruses that can corrupt your data or worse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

Library clips picks up the thread with a detailed analysis of enterprise email and blogging processes and talks about where blogs shine over email for particular types of communication. Speaking of other tools, Stewart Mader, of Wiki Patterns, is running a series, " 21 Days of Wiki Adoption. and Office 2.0

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For educational nonprofits, schools, and libraries, Raspberry Pi is very useful for teaching students about electronics, computing, and many other technical subjects for a price that's far less than a new computer. Libraries have also experimented with replacing terminals with smaller footprint Raspberry Pi computers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

These tools are being used to announce educational opportunities and product availability and to communicate with nonprofit and library professionals and volunteers. Heyning spoke of the process she undertakes to run events, which rely on detailed scripts and content carefully curated on the team’s internal wiki.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

ARIS is used for designing local, geolocative games at Global Kids connected to libraries and schools to talk about the history and issues in their. Visit nonprofitgames.org to see our wiki of resources including everything featured in this blog post, Causebuilding Games extensive slidedeck, and professional connecting points. (JD,

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. For more information on content curation, consider the following resources: Beth Kanter's wiki on Content Curation. Last month, TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's hourlong tweet chat explored content curation and the best tools for it.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

nonprofit organizations and libraries are participating in these digital divide efforts as well through grants from Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), which is a program of the U.S. Learn more about broadband and, in particular, get resources for expanding Internet access and digital literacy through our broadband wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Check out the TweetChat on July 11 for a quick introduction on how it translates to nonprofit and library work. Community team wiki with a distributed team resource list. Additional TechSoup Resources. NTC 2011 TechSoup virtual teams presentation. on Slideshare. Susan Tenby's NTC presentation notes. on Wikispaces.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2006

If you are new to Second Life , here are some good introductory pieces: For more newbie and How-To information, check out the Second Life wiki: [link]. Library Services in Second Life [link]. And, feel to explore my Second Life Learning journal here , my flickr npsl stream here , my delicious links here and my wiki notes here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

You can find other Twitterers who are interested in your book's topic on the TwitterPack wiki. The author of Social Software in Libraries hosted an Alternative Book Cover contest. The winners got signed copies of her book and were announced at the Computers in Libraries Conference. The winner gets a Flip Video camera.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2011

TechSoup continued its Social Media Mondays in May with a discussion on Twitter to expand on the resources offered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki. Until then, consider visiting the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki or the following if you'd like to learn more about Twitter: What type of tweets get retweeted most?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2009

They encourage you to use Sunlight's code libraries , which the Labs recently open sourced. Check the Labs' wiki for ideas. You can find more information at [link]. Don't worry if you're not a coder geek.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

And might it be worth it for your nonprofit, library or other mission-based organization? Virtual Volunteering Wiki : in conjunction with the 2013 release of the Virtual Volunteering Guidebook later this year. In short, there is nothing "micro" about setting up a microvolunteering program! Not even hundreds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Flickr and Libraries. Liberate your control freaks: Driving social computing adoption in business. Google: The Search Engine Industry. Bottom-Up Tagging. A Second Life for the Archivist. Mobile Social Play

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management. Simple brochureware websites.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It is essentially a wiki where you will be able to upload a problem statement and links to related data sets etc. also reports some news that effect libraries. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. Technology for Good Report.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

The Library Society of the World is one I use frequently. A wiki is a great low-cost solution if your community is comfortable with it technically. They used Basecamp to bring together all of the Training Officers at each State Commission throughout the country. Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Yet, for many purposes, refurbished equipment presents nonprofits, libraries, and lower-income families with a more affordable alternative to new equipment; one that will do nearly everything that new computers do. Growing Supply and Increasing Demand. Someday, I guess, used PCs and other IT equipment will be a rarity.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. Each CoP has space in the NTEN groups platform ([link] You can search for current CoP’s by entering “CoP” in the search bar on the upper right hand corner of your browser window. How will the CoP members interact?

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