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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I used my $100 check to purchase holiday gifts for Next Door Solutions, an agency here in Silicon Valley that safety for battered women and their children through emergency shelter; multiple points of entry for victims; individuals, system and institutional advocacy; crisis intervention; education for victims and the community. Your turn.

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O'Brien: Lessons on innovation from nonprofits - San Jose Mercury News

AFP Blog

O'Brien: Lessons on innovation from nonprofits - San Jose Mercury News: "Those lessons were on display last week when I stopped by the annual NetSquared conference at the Cisco Systems campus.

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N2Y4 Mobile Challenge and Conference

Amy Sample Ward

Location: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA. See you in San Jose! Conference Details: Date: Tuesday, May 26 & Wednesday, May 27. Hotel: Visit N2Y4 for more info. Registration: REGISTER here!

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Experts Weigh In: Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for Government

Forum One

For example, the government of San Jose created an after-hours chatbot, available in multiple languages, to serve what they recognized as a need from Spanish- and Vietnamese-speaking populations who could not take time off work to meet at a government office during business hours.

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Reverse Engineering the Nissan Leaf's Range Display

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jim found another cool display option for the Leaf's power system, and we were geeking out trying different things to twitch the separate range display. It's rare for me to drive further away than San Jose, San Francisco or Berkeley. When we started, the range display showed Palo Alto as out of reach.

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The Next Wave of Technology for Nonprofits

John Kenyon

The SafeChat Silicon Valley Domestic Violence Collaborative, made up of four nonprofits who provide services in the San Jose, California area, launched this online chat service in August 2016, successfully completing its two-year pilot phase in August 2018. Nonprofits Act on #Cybersecurity . flickr: blogtrepreneur.

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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

The &# Review of Management of Internet Websites in the United Nations System Organizations“ (31 pages) focuses on website governance and strategy – and I still have to meet a web manager who doesn’t feel this could be improved." "Hujambo from Tanzania!

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