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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

Tech Soup

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Restart Romania: A Spectrum of Engagement. By all accounts, Restart Romania was a huge success.

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Content Curation Tweet Chat with TechSoup Romania on December 21st

Tech Soup

Pacific time as we co-host a live tweet chat with our partner TechSoup Romania on the up-and-coming topic of curation. With so many people creating content and an overwhelming amount of information available, how do you know what's important or from trusted sources? Join us Wednesday, December 21, at 9 a.m.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. A rating of 100 or more is considered good in Romania. Goal is to provide web presence for most ngos in Romania.

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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. Defining and Refining the Problem to Optimize Solving It with Tech. Video : TechSoup Romania. spanhidden.

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Scrappy VS Strategic: Is there a generational divide in nonprofits around how to innovate using new technology?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As of this writing, there are 13 responses (ok, two are from me) from people who work (in some cases lead) the Morino Institute, Random Hacks of Kindness, TechSoup Romania, CROS, Meedan, the Gates Foundation, Beth Kanter, Campus Party USA, Vulcan Labs, and Fundacja TechSoup/Warsaw Social Hackathon.

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Harnessing Office 365 to Send Every Child to Preschool

Tech Soup

OvidiuRo's story began in 2001, when Maria Gheorghiu and Leslie Hawke were helping poor women from the ghettos of Bacau, a small city in Romania. In Romania, the monthly child allowance, which is unconditional, is €10, so this significantly increases the amount a destitute family has for food.

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Harnessing Office 365 to Send Every Child to Preschool

Tech Soup

OvidiuRo's story began in 2001, when Maria Gheorghiu and Leslie Hawke were helping poor women from the ghettos of Bacau, a small city in Romania. In Romania, the monthly child allowance, which is unconditional, is €10, so this significantly increases the amount a destitute family has for food.

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