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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” 83% of participants are applying their social media skills to engage local and global communities. 12 training centers have been established.

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Broadband Adoption in Chile

Tech Soup

This post was written by Carmina Sicangco, partner-management specialist at TechSoup Global. Cisco released the results of a study last week , reporting that growth in Chile's broadband penetration has dropped from 45 percent in 2006 to 10.5 percent in 2008.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. It is TechSoup donor partner, Cisco’s ‘planetary skin’ that monitors trillions of sensors on, above, and below the earth to plot environmental changes. Anything I missed?

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

But did you know that our work is global? TechSoup's catalog includes more than 375 products from over 90 companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, and Symantec. That's why TechSoup created NetSquared , our global network of volunteer-led Tech4Good meetups. However, access to the tools isn't enough.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. Digital Inclusion.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

Now, here's the latest: Global Digital Inclusion. Ah yes, another month and another massive global digital inclusion initiative. TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. The Forecasts for 2012. for some time now.

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