Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The IT press was buzzing in late April about the free portable WiFi embedded by Microsoft in select May 6 Forbes Magazine print issues. promotional ad in Forbes that turns the magazine in to a free T-Mobile WiFi hotspot for 15 days. It's a free download at ebenchmarkstudy.com. Strange News. Yes that's right.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Prioritize images and video over text and provide ample white space. Primary Navigation Bar: Footer: 4.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. finds that charities aren’t effectively engaging younger donors via mobile friendly channels like social media and mobile optimized websites. Charities can request Office 365 directly from Microsoft. Free Cloud Storage.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our free events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Naples, Florida: #Storymakers 2017: Creating Images and Video with Adobe Spark. London, United Kingdom: Digital Storytelling for Charities.

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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. Images: Business in the Streets. BITS believes that peer mentorship is an essential education component. spanhidden.

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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. Images: Business in the Streets. BITS believes that peer mentorship is an essential education component. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. Austin, Texas: Google Digital Inclusion Fellowship — NTEN, Skillpoint, and Austin Free-Net. Busia, Kenya: Net2Kenya Small Charity Week 2015. Image : Chris Heuer / CC BY-NC-SA. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Mukono, Uganda.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

As of January 25, there are 40,000 nonprofit members attending free tech networking events and workshops in 75 cities. Peterborough, Ontario: Domains, Branding, and Identity — NGO,CA,ORG, and more. London, United Kingdom: Uses of Internal, External, and Open Data for Charities. Image : Sylvie Ndahimana / CC BY.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 47% of nonprofits purchased Facebooks Ads in 2019. Perhaps they can not get a Facebook ad budget approved or they are simply stuck in the outdated “social media is free” meme. Perhaps improved storytelling (text, images, videos, polls, stickers, etc.)

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. The Demise of Facebook Causes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2017

2017 is the final year of free webinars for nonprofits ( view final schedule ). To date, Nonprofit Tech for Good has trained 49,000 nonprofit, charity, and NGO staff worldwide on how to succeed in online communications and fundraising. 3) Never release an infographic as a PDF.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It did herald the coming of something called augmented reality — overlaying digital images on the real world. We did a couple of common-sense articles this past year describing actions charities and libraries can take to be more secure: 4 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to Keep Data Private. Image 1: Wes Holing. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The web introduced publicly viewable web pages that include text, images, and sounds. Charity Digital News in the UK just announced that the Digital Leaders 100 competition in the UK is now open to nominations. One of the leader categories are NGOs. of charities or NGOs that are doing important digital inclusion projects.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Here's your monthly roundup of free in-person #Tech4Good events. This remarkable cohort of 250 community builders are hosting monthly free workshops and networking events in more than 74 cities, and they're doing it entirely as volunteers. . ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Seattle, Washington.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

In our upcoming free webinar, Four Nonprofit CRM Strategies , our presenter will be an NPTech leader I’ve followed for a good long time – David Geilhufe. You can review their charity guidelines to determine if your organization is eligible. Attend our upcoming free webinar on April 3: Four Nonprofit CRM Strategies.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

It's a free download at ebenchmarkstudy.com. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. The images are called pins and collections are called boards.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

It's time to catch up on some of the nonprofit technology trends and news out in NGO-land. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. Click to see full size image. . ”FB can be a catalyst and lever to tackle wicked problems.” ” In these three ways. Boundless communities. Momentum without limits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The internet is loaded with amazing free or low-cost tools and resources! BlueHost is w low-cost web and email hosting company with excellent customer service and free SSL Certificates. Iconfinder is an online database of almost one million icons and many of the social media icons sets are available to download for free.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We expanded this year to be able to provide product donations to pretty much any NGO in the world — 236 countries and territories to be exact. Facebook, still the world's number one social media site, made available a "Donate Now" call-to-action button for all charities. It was a big year for TechSoup itself.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

The number of low-cost or free apps and online tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. IFTTT is a free applet creation service based ont he the premise of if this happens, then do this. iStock by Getty Images has high quality, royalty-free visual content for a low cost. Social Media. Buffer :: buffer.com.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

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. She essentially finds that big data is a significant opportunity for NGOs to democratize data and make it public, and also to identify patterns of need.

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