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I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.
For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues.
Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. This is a communiqué on the current state of cloud adoption in TechSoup's NetSquared international community from Marc Manashil, community evangelist for NetSquared.
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Here's a great post from Ivan Booth who picked up on a question Joe Solomon posed on the NetSquared blog recently. " Viral Video for Nonprofits - A Rethinking - Thinking about creating a "viral video" for your organization's project or campaign? ." " Tags: roundup bookmarks.
In actuality, hackathons are events where ideas are hatched and technology needs are met — making them excellent opportunities for nonprofits, charities, and libraries! A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects.
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Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. His projects address unemployment, food waste, and health. ” My colleague, Robert Egger , is one of the early pioneers in the Share economy and food.
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This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons. San Francisco libraries have varying hours and might not always be open. Library staff can tell patrons to use this service when the library is closed or if all the computers are in use. Bond & Me. Reporting Problems.
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" New at TechSoup: Your 501(c)(3) nonprofit, library, or foundation can now collect donations by text message — and develop your own mobile site — with discounted and donated services from Connect2Give. This offer is available to all nonprofits, charities, foundations, and public libraries. Benefits of a Mobile Site.
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There has been online conversation during the past couple of weeks on vlog list , Netsquared , TechSoup and Blogher. " A nonprofit just beginning to incorporate video into their web presence notes on a recent Netsquared post , "We don't have that much capacity to do video work, so its kind of catch-as-catch-can."
He discussed the gaming for good community and gave some examples of projects he and his colleagues were working on. The events are designed to be a forum for ideas, discussion, and action to execute technology-based projects or campaigns. Gaming for Good Resources. Check out TechSoup's recap of Nonprofits Live: Gaming.
" Before CompuMentor, she worked for a medical library at the San Francisco General Hospital where her job responsibilities included conducting Medline searches for patients and doctors. The Library Alliance on Information Island offered Susan a parcel of land for TechSoup to get started. s not an unconventional idea at all.
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As if you don't get enough of my holding forth here, Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me the other day for Techsoup's Netsquaredproject, and posted it here. Dave King is the acting director of IT at the Kansas City public library. His blog explores technology, web, and usability issues as they apply to libraries.
Then check out our new online learning courses, starting with Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group. What have NetSquared groups been up to recently? NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. *
The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. The next event I attended was a poster session at the New Media Consortium where you view project posters in the virtual world.
The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days. Hackathons are most often fast projects that last one to three days.
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This event is part of our Tech Training for Nonprofit and Library Staff online course. She has founded the nonprofit NPTechProjects, assisting nonprofits with IT strategy, project management, and online learning spaces. Since 2013, she has also been a Techsoup NetSquared organizer for Tech4Good SWFL. Pacific time (2 p.m.
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But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? At tightly facilitated events called Generators, leaders with a range of expertise from the nonprofit and library communities discuss their daily work. public libraries to the app.
About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. The Ann Arbor District Library System uses a blog for the front page of their site.
For the past year, I have been writing for NetSquared about nonprofits and NGOs that are using the social web to cultivate donors, advocates and activists for their organization and their cause. You can check out the pilot project on the Global Voices blog here. What makes us want to act for social change? Emotional connection.
" Here at TechSoup, we're excited to see nonprofits and public libraries as well as our donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco, involved with TechHire. How do we take this on as a real project?" We suggest also finding your nearest NetSquared group , where nonprofits and technologists come together for social impact!
Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns. Hiring people.
See also the Noun Project. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Slack is a cloud-based tool for teams of staff and volunteers to collaborate on projects and communicate through focused messaging. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. See also Asana.
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. NetSquared :: netsquared.org. NetSquared in a group of volunteer leaders who host free #TechforGood in-person events every month in 120 cities worldwide. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web.
NetSquared organizer, Eli van der Giessen’s personal favorite free lightweight online image editor is PicMonkey. It’s also a nonprofit project. " These are fine for noncommercial use by charities or libraries with attribution to the author. TechSoup: Free Infographic Tools for Nonprofits and Libraries.
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