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What is your “Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today.

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A View of the Cloud from India

Tech Soup

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. India is of course one of the world's oldest civilizations, and is also the largest democracy in the world. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.

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Need Answers: LinkedIn Has Them

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Much of the “good” done throughout history has been financed by what one could call “repentant sinners,” such as Carnegie with his libraries, funded by the exploitation of labor in the days of the robber barons. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? Komen for the Cure is a perfect example of this conundrum.

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TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey: What We Found Out and What to Do About It Part Two

Tech Soup

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. Many NGOs Find Cloud Computing Confusing: Why? Cloud Contradictions in the NGO Sector. The global NGO average is 36%.

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TechSoup Global Cloud Survey Results and Cloud Donations for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

When we surveyed NGOs and libraries around the world this year about where they are in regard to using and needing cloud based IT services, we didn’t know how far things have gone toward cloud adoption. While a lot of NGOs are using at least one cloud-based application, deeper use of cloud tools is relatively low.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. This time I wanted to feature NGOs around the world that are making a humanitarian impact internationally across several countries. How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children.

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