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Haiti Earthquake: Orphans, Crisis Mapping, and Tech Volunteers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who are not familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or time line. Crisis Camps.

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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , HandsOn Tech , DataKind , and more. New Orleans, Louisiana: Putting NOLA on the Product Hunt Map. Boston, Massachusetts: Nonprofit Tech Alchemy: From Ideas to Impact. Upcoming Events. Tuesday, July 7, 2015.

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To Strengthen Democracy in America, Think Tech

Tech Soup

This new free online data visualization and mapping tool demonstrates the value of applying technology to philanthropy, in this case, creating a place to find out how and where foundations are supporting U.S. Only Six Foundations Provide the Majority of NPTech Grants. That said, tech-savvy foundations have a lot to be proud of.

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Start 2017 by Building Your Tech Skills and Community

Tech Soup

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Join a Nonprofit Tech User Group This August

Tech Soup

Find your local #nptech tribe and consider sharing your skills as a volunteer surgeon by joining a NetSquared Local group. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Minneapolis, MN: August #NPTech Social Club. Morrisville, NC: Get your NPTech Resources! Amanda Levinson lists four (irrefutable!)

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NpTech: Summer Vacations, Who Let the NpTech Dogs Out, and IPhone Fundraising!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog. It's an online collaborative mapping tool.

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Drupal and Salesforce

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This module provides the basic salesforce API connection (via SOAP), and includes field mapping, and basic import/export. Tags: CMS CRM Data Nonprofit Tech Web Tools drupal integration nptech salesforce. There are several contributed modules: salesforce – main module, with API, node, and user integration possibilities.

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