This is your last chance to help select the "People's Choice Award" for the Windows 8 App for Social Good: the contest ends at 11:59 PM PT Friday, March 15. That's today!
Unsure of where to start? Microsoft Citizenship has produced a voter's guide that summarizes and categorizes all the apps. READ MORE
Six months ago, things were looking shaky for the Chicago group - declining attendance, comments about being unaware of our mission, a strategic planning meeting that went awry, and a snide comment that "the community doesn't want Net Tuesday" left me - as organizer - with a very shaky sense of confidence. So I did the one thing that many organizers might not think to do:
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. Finally, swing into spring with new web design fashions. This piece was orignially published on the TechSoup.org blog. READ MORE
By Paula Cohen and Kat Friedrich, NetSquared Boston
ID Hack was a 28-hour hackathon on Feb. 22-23 organized by Harvard Developers for Development and the MIT Global Poverty Initiative. It brought together talented hackers and NGOs from the greater Boston area to work on projects that will make an impact on international development. READ MORE
What do the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, Drupal Association, and Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research have in common? They all use CiviCRM to help further their missions.
In case you haven't heard of CiviCRM, it is the leading open source CRM for non profit organisations - providing integrated tools for constituent tracking, fund-raising, event registration, case management and e-newsletter (and has out of the box integration with Drupal, Joomla and WordPress). READ MORE
Six months ago, things were looking shaky for the Chicago group - declining attendance, comments about being unaware of our mission, a strategic planning meeting that went awry, and a snide comment that "the community doesn't want Net Tuesday" left me - as organizer - with a very shaky sense of confidence. So I did the one thing that many organizers might not think to do:
