Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Los Angeles, California: LGBTQ and Tech! Baltimore, Maryland: Google AdWords and Free Tech Help.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2013

A couple of weeks ago we hosted Steve Spiker ( @spjika ) at a NetSquared San Francisco event, who talked about how his organizations Urban Strategies Council and OpenOakland tackled data projects in Oakland, California. Open Source data NetSquared TechSoup Event apps' Check out the Netsquared blog for a detailed write-up.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

They shared valuable insights that addressed the many challenges nonprofits are facing around smart tech adoption, content strategy, change management, and leadership. Marie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys hiking and traveling with her husband and two teenagers.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. San Francisco, California: Discounted Tickets for Impact Investing: Business Innovation Conversation II. Victoria, Canada: Storie­s from the Rare Sightings of Women in Tech.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2010

Now that we're two years into our SugarCRM implementation I thought it would be good to visit the annual developer conference in San Francisco. Tags: Clients Databases Donors Marketing Online Recruitment Open Source Reporting Running Your Organization Software Tech Planning Using the Web and Internet.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Peterborough, Canada: Tech for Social Good. Naples, FL: NFN4Good Tech Club for SWFL. Austin, TX: Austin 501 Tech Club & Netsquared Happy Hour. Kevin Lo reports from San Francisco’s latest event, Open Source and Open Data in Action. Tuesday, July 30. Wednesday, July 31. Event Reports.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

If you weren't able to join us in San Francisco last week for the Nonprofit Technology Conference , we've got a recap of some of the happenings here on our blog. 12NTC is the go-to event every year for nonprofit professionals who work on technology, communications, or guide their organizations in tech decisions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. in Environmental Management with a concentration in Water Management, both from the University of San Francisco. Isabella received her B.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

And I’m already looking forward to NTC in San Francisco in 2009! { There are, of course, some tweaks we can make to make sure that everyone really can gain value from NTC, and we can sustain the richness that it contains. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Holly 03.24.08

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2012

CiviCon , the annual CiviCRM conference, is happening in the San Francisco Bay Area on. CiviCRM is open-source, web-based software that. CiviCRM integrates directly with the popular open-source content management systems – Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. Read on for details.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina: Nonprofit Tech Trends for 2016. Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Nonprofit leaders, impact investors, and philanthropists from all over the world gathered in San Francisco's Fort Mason Center this week for SOCAP12. Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Create Documentaries for Your Cause.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

San Francisco, United States: TechSoup and San Francisco NetSquared welcomed Jay Golden, co-founder of Waking Star, for "Telling Your Origin Story." The answer for smaller organizations is to look for open source software as suggested in the Cambridge portion of the tweet chat.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

" While you might think that it came from the satirical The Onion , it was actually a real headline from our local newspaper here in San Francisco. San Francisco, like many cities embracing the open data movement, has a dedicated data site with all sorts of data available for free for anyone to download and use.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

This year's #16NTC Nonprofit Technology Conference is in San Jose, right around the corner from TechSoup's San Francisco office. Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

The COO of 99designs, a design firm based in Australia and San Francisco, guest blogged about web design for Connecting Up, TechSoup's Australia and New Zealand partner. The Greenbelt Alliance, a nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay Area, shared 10 lessons learned from its major website overhaul.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward, Katrin Verclas and John Haydon are among the familiar names in the nonprofit tech sector who are part of the effort. Socialbrite.org is built in WordPress, the popular open source blogging platform.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Billy Bicket got the first Net Tuesdays going in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A few weeks ago, the San Francisco Public Library hosted an event with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for citizen digital rights. All of this software is free and much of it is open source.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The last day at the Social Capital Market Conference in San Francisco closed out with a bang. Thankfully, what was once incredibly expensive is now much more accessible thanks to the rise of open source software and cloud computing. To better serve their mission, nonprofits need to take advantage of the power of big data.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

Gayle Samuelson Carpentier: I am the board chair for a San Francisco digital inclusion nonprofit, Community Technology Network Bay Area. Gayle Samuelson Carpentier: NTEN does a great job bringing together nonprofit technology assistant providers (NTAPs), companies that make tech resources available, and nonprofits into a network.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Fast Forward, a tech nonprofit accelerator, highlighted a few such organizations during their Demo Day 2022 event. Using Tech to Reduce Barriers to Education.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

May 29, 2019; San Francisco Chronicle. Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.”

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2005

In just a cursory read of the last few days posts, I bookmarked new resources relating to the Open Source Movement as it relates realms other than software, the chaotic but valiant efforts of the tech sector to try to help with tracking missing persons during the worst days of the Katrina crisis, and a site put up by the city of San Francisco on how (..)

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 1, 2006

Follow Open Source principles. There needs to be more tech training for women, and I would add, for girls. One place in San Francisco that I know is providing tech training for girls is GirlSource's Technology and Leadership Program. Be a Community Advocate, not a Company Evangelist 3. Be 100% Authentic 4.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

I had the honor to be the opening keynoter for the first-ever Good Tech Fest , which was held in Detroit on May 22, 2018. Tech alone will not be enough. Adding tech to a broken human system gets you to broken faster and cheaper. Using Software and Data to Change the World We are in an amazing time.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2015

He helps groups of tech-for-good people get together anywhere in the world get together to talk shop. Regina is our amazing co-organizer of San Francisco Tech4Good , the NetSquared-affiliated group in the Bay Area. Just before NTC each year, NTEN staff and board members make a final decision on the award winners."

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2012

And Women Who Tech just created an awesome infographic that details exactly why women rule. BAVC will select at least six of the world’s most promising social issue documentary projects to participate in a week-long new media and social impact laboratory in San Francisco. Have more news to share? Women rule! Anything we missed?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

that is experimenting with high tech balloons to supply Internet in remote places. I got a chance to attend one of the cutting edge conferences we have out here in San Francisco to get a sense of how nonprofit technology fits in to the leading edge of innovation. People are comparing this venture to Google’s Project Loon.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

Heartbleed is an OpenSSL bug that creates openings in cloud servers in which attackers can go in and extract passwords, private keys, and other data. OpenSSL is nonprofit open source software that provides security on e-commerce and other websites by creating an encrypted channel between your device and the website.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

We should also pause and note t he tech sector’s troubling tendency to turn inward while adopting the language of the public square and the commons. During the plenary session at the Share Conference in San Francisco, Janelle Orsi asked, "Are we ready to build a movement? Where are they in the Shared City Initiative?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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