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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Chris Worman, senior director of alliances and community engagement at TechSoup, founded TechSoup Romania and was heavily involved in ReStart Romania and TechSoup's other open community challenges. For example, they profiled a father who was fighting to get speed bumps put in his neighborhood. Video : TechSoup Romania.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 1-12

Tech Soup

Get great content curation tips in Susan's recap of the TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's tweet chat. Aletha profiles what TechSoup Asia is up to. Sarah reports on the Public Access Technology Benchmarks project. From Our Other Projects. Michael offers some suggestions for developing Your Tech Game Plan for 2012.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. The ideas submission process started last week and will be followed by online conversations, online community voting, jury voting, and a hackathons for the best projects in each of the countries. Users are encouraged to share and "like" pins.

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Social Media Tips from the TechSoup Global Network

Tech Soup

So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Read a recap of TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's Tweet Chat , which explored content curation and discussed the best tools for it. By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter.

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Social Media Tips from the TechSoup Global Network

Tech Soup

So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? Read a recap of TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's Tweet Chat , which explored content curation and discussed the best tools for it. By now, you've probably heard all the benefits of building a social media presence on Facebook or Twitter.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia.

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had the opportunity to present this workshop in Romania , UK , Cambodia , (for a mostly Eastern European audience ) and all over the US for different types of nonprofits, different levels, and different perspectives (communications staff, program staff, social entrepreneurs, senior leadership,etc). .

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