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Four Food Charities Fighting Hunger Locally During a Pandemic

Tech Soup Blog

We spoke to four food security organizations in Colombia, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States to better understand the challenges facing organizations working in food security and the ways the pandemic has shifted operations for them.

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Intel, Portugal agree to deal for 500,000 laptops

AFP Blog

Intel, Portugal agree to deal for 500,000 laptops: "Intel Corp.

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The Buzz at Beaconfire: June 10, 2011

Allegiance Group

Happy Portugal Day everyone. Here’s a couple things that we’ve been chatting about this week. Identifont. Let me know if this has ever happened to you… You see a font on a website image that you love. You say to yourself, “Hey, i’d like to use that font in the future.&#

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The Culture Map

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Culture Map is filled with engaging, real-life stories and anecdotes from around the world. It's based on years of extensive research by Meyer, who is a professor at INSEAD and the program director for INSEAD's Managing Global Virtual Teams program.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I met a professor from Portugal who had a student who developed EasyVoice , software that makes it possible for someone who cannot speak to use Voice over IP via Skype to talk to people using a voice synthesizer.

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Announcing The Art of Relevance Audiobook! Get Your for Free Today.

Museum 2.0

And if you prefer your media in audio-visual form, here are two videos from recent talks about the book: A 12-minute talk about The Art of Relevance for a broad audience at TedXPaloAlto A 30-minute talk plus Q&A, with a slant towards science centers at ECSITE in Portugal Finally, I'll be sharing stories of relevance live and in-person this fall (..)

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NGOMeme -- the folks I'm tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bev Traynor from Portugal Andre Quintos from Phillipines Trish Perkins (who is traveling in Nepal and other places in that part of the world) ThaRum and Wanna (in Cambodia) CharityBlog from John Howes from the UK. Tag 5 other colleagues. add the tag "ngomeme" to your post.

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Designing for Good #3 – Best of 2016 Nonprofit Storytelling

Connection Cafe

2 Alzheimer Association of Portugal: “First Date” video (60 sec). A fictionalized composite of many Syrian refugee stories, this sequel short film to Save the Children’s 2014 film by Don’t Panic is a fast moving, visceral, and devastating cry for engagement and change. . #2

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup Blog

The Team For a Better World from Portugal developed a prototype low-cost portable device that determines blood types in about 5 minutes. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. The tech for good category in the competition is called World Citizenship.

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Call for Papers: Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bev Trayner is an independent consultant from Portugal. Nancy White is an independent consultant from the United States and a KM4D Journal Editorial Board Member. Beth Kanter is an independent consultant from the United States. Partha Sarker is a Researcher with Telecentre.org (Canada) and Co-founder of Bytes for All (India).

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Presenting Multilingual Content | Beaconfire Wire

Allegiance Group

What flag would you use to represent Portuguese language content – Portugal or Brazil? The easy one first, you don’t want to use as the visual representation of languages. While they may provide a dash of color, flags represent countries, not languages. Don’t even get me started on the options for Spanish language content.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Steven knows we live in a very highly descendants of Portugal here. Oh, it’s a nightmare, isn’t it? So it’s your data, protect it, clean it up. Now, I get so cautious. I’m Portuguese. So I’m going to say I get [foreign language 00:19:56]. ” And I’m like, ” [foreign language 00:20:19].”

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