Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If you’re trendspotting the latest in webwear like me, you’ll notice that the bold and beautiful charity websites are slimming down the text and accentuating the images. that the very latest trend in web design this fall is all about the images. Major web design competitions often have charity categories.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

TechSoup Global’s CEO Rebecca Masisak is presenting at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 this month in Minneapolis. It is the part of the world where businesses that behave like charities, and charities that behave like businesses, find common cause. Image 1: Ashoka logo. Image 2: BetterWorld Telecom logo.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. Storytelling: One of the Most Important Things that Charities Do.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In personal tech, lots of publications like Search Engine Land are reporting that Microsoft has launched a new feature in Bing that lets people ask follow-up questions to their initial search query. Google launched a similar service for their Chrome browser in 2013. Image one: Creative Commons: Handset Out For Repair : CC BY.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

This spring, NTEN launched its Digital Inclusion Fellowship Program in which 16 young community leaders in eight Google Fiber communities will have paid internships for a year with local charities. It is a Scotland-based charity that has to date helped more than 20,000 people to gain digital skills. Image : ESOlex / Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The errors of a few, but well-known nonprofit organizations have hurt the nonprofit sector in public opinion as well as capacity- and infrastructure-building ability. Back in 2013, GuideStar, BBB Wise Giving Alliance, and Charity Navigator formed an alliance to combat the overhead myth. Image 1 : Andrey_Popov / Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. Image 1: Microsoft. Safer Internet Day.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

"By Youth, For Youth" is the motto of Business in the Streets (BITS), a Toronto-based Canadian Registered Charity that focuses on peer mentorship for struggling and low-income youth with a business idea. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. Images: Business in the Streets.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

"By Youth, For Youth" is the motto of Business in the Streets (BITS), a Toronto-based Canadian Registered Charity that focuses on peer mentorship for at-risk and low-income youth with a business idea. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. Images: Business in the Streets.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Among charities and libraries, who tend to hang on to their PCs longer than other organizations, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s still over half of the PC install base. Image: courtesy of Kit_Hartford via Flickr Creative Commons. The end of XP support is a big deal because so many organizations are still using it.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

While beautiful charity galas and creative offline campaigns still gather support for nonprofits’ causes, they slowly slip away from donors’ focus. According to the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , online revenue grew by 21% over 2011 totals, presenting nonprofits even more reasons to pull out the heavy gear and start online fundraising.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new developments in email technology including Gmail’s new tabbed inbox and how it affects your charity newsletters, and the array of new email filtering services that cut down on email overload. This may be the impetus for end-users to be able find out how private (or public) their data stored in the cloud is.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. 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. Image: Courtesy of Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing. Time for Nonprofit and Charity Videos. Also charities from anywhere in the world can participate.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Create a PUBLIC calendar invite. Create a public calendar invite on Google (and others) to remind your audience to take action on Giving Tuesday. iCal : here is a guide for how to create your public calendar invite on iCal using the icloud login. Fox Foundation did this very well in 2013. Don’t ignore corporate giving!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. The web introduced publicly viewable web pages that include text, images, and sounds.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

In other words refurbishers are eligible for the program if you're based in schools (public or private and all levels), nonprofits, businesses, or government agencies. The Microsoft Office Professional and Standard versions (2010 and 2013) available from TechSoup are compatible, however. Image: Courtesy of Microsoft.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 2013, he publically confronted Iran's foreign minister, Mohamed Zarif, in New York demanding the release of political prisoner Majid Tavakoli. Movements.org is an online skills marketplace, operating under the umbrella of the charity Advancing Human Rights. Images 1 and 3 : Movements.org. Image 2: David Keyes.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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